Paul G. Allen wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
The primary reason for this in my experience has been the poor support for Java on Linux. What has been common, particularly in the past, has been "We would like this to run on Unix, what's the best route? Port the Win32 code base to Java!".
IBM's Java release has excellent Linux support. For example, IBM includes the Java Communications API (comm.jar) from Sun in their JRE and JDK. Sun does not support Linux yet.
It really is no longer true to say that support for Java on Linux is poor. IBM has based a large part part of their business on Linux.
And Sun has made their Linux JDK a top priority. However my statement was that there was "poor support for Java on Linux", not "poor Linux support in Java". The problem isn't with the JDK's, but with the distros. There are a couple that make Java integration a priority, but even their work is comaratively lame.
--Chris
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