Editorial about Sun, Java, Linux

2000-05-04 Thread Nelson Minar
Picked this up off Linux Weekly News, http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KevinLyda/KevinLyda7.html "If there was a free software version of Java available, or better yet if Sun would work in concert with the Mozilla development team to integrate a Java vm into Mozilla/Netscape then there would f

IBM 1.3 impressions

2000-05-04 Thread noisebrain
- it uses the IBM jit rather than hotspot. Performs similarly to IBM's 1.1.8 on a couple benchmarks (i.e. very good performance, though we haven't seen what hotspot can do yet). - The Swing demo is completely rewritten, worth checking out. Java2D demo is modified slightly. - SWING IS MUC

Re: IBM has posted 1.3 pre-release

2000-05-04 Thread Scott Murray
On Thu, 4 May 2000, SHUDO Kazuyuki wrote: > Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > > IBM has its own JVM. Our 1.3 will have Sun's HotSpot VM. > > Is the forthcoming Blackdown JDK 1.3 based on the > source code of HotSpot VM available under SCSL ? > I infer the answer is no. My understanding from readin

Re: Source Code of Web Browser for Linux

2000-05-04 Thread Kristian Soerensen
Hi There's the source for Netscape/Mozilla available from www.mozilla.org and from the same URL you can get the source an approach to create an entire webbrowser in Java that Netscape abandoned but it still being developed by volunteers. You schould not underestimate the platform independence o

Re: IBM has posted 1.3 pre-release

2000-05-04 Thread SHUDO Kazuyuki
Juergen Kreileder wrote: > IBM has its own JVM. Our 1.3 will have Sun's HotSpot VM. Is the forthcoming Blackdown JDK 1.3 based on the source code of HotSpot VM available under SCSL ? I infer the answer is no. The archive containing the sourcecode (hotspot1_0_1-src.tar.gz) seems to contains only