On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:27:23AM -0500, Joi Ellis wrote:
> I wrote off the IBM JVM last year after living with swing bugs and
> a broken debugger that dumped core every time I tried to use it. I
> deleted it off my machine after I spent a day crafting a reproducible
> test case for the debugger core dump and posting a polite bug report
> on their news group, only to have them cancel the post. I deleted
> all IBM jvms from my machine at that point and haven't used one since.
> I don't recommend anyone use IBM's JVM, especially on Linux. Not when
> they treat users like they treated me.
>
I have to agree about the IBM JVM. Jikes really rocks, but their
1.3 JVM had fundamental problems that rendered it useless for awt
based applications, which of course includes Swing, and it completely
sucked. To be fair I haven't tried whatever their latest offering
may be, but then after the wasted time of downloading and installing
what, suprisingly, turned out to be a fiasco, I don't see why I should
given that Blackdown works acceptably.
Nick
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