On 4/15/09 5:44 PM, "Kirk Wolf" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is Java without a JIT compiler really of much practical use?
Well, it's a start. It gets us A Java, and there are enough religious differences between the IBM Java implementation and the Sun Java implementation that if you're trying to bring people off other platforms, they will refuse to move if there is not a Sun JDK. There are a number of options that are different, and different = bad = no migration. Note that this is for Linux as well as OpenSolaris. The same issues apply to both environments. > IBM has made a huge investment in JIT technology for z architecture > (z/OS and Linux) in their SDK. It would be much better IMO if IBM > offered a Solaris z port of their SDK. After all, if IBM isn't > interested in Solaris z ports of their products, who will be? On the Solaris OS, IBM products use the Sun JDK. One less excuse. Also, this is more about non-vendor code; most of the ISVs do support the IBM code, but customer code is seldom (if ever) tested against it. They support the Sun JDK, and insist on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
