On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:49:35AM -0700, Nelson Minar wrote:
> What would be *really* great is if there were an open source Java
> implementation that we could all contribute to and avoid all these
> politics. My impression is the Java design is stable enough that this
> is reasonable to do, but that it's a lot of work to implement.
Ah, but there is: Kaffe is alive and well and benefitting greatly from
user contribution. You can't contribute if you're polluted by any Sun
anti-open-source licenses, but the rest of can.
The current implementation is almost 1.1-complaint and has parts of 1.2.
The Java spec is huge, of course, and getting the rest of the way to
a full implementation isn't a quick job. But, as far as I can tell,
Kaffe is by far the strongest of the open source Java implementations.
Nathan
>
> What ever happened to Japhar? They were doing great, then stopped in
> mid-March last year.
>
> GNU classpath is still going strong. No VM, but a class library is
> valuable.
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