Re: How hard would be an OpenSource JVM ?

2004-09-01 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Sep 1, 2004, at 6:25 AM, theUser BL wrote: But how hard is it, to reimplement the plantform-dependent parts (the JVM and .so/.dll libs) as OpenSource and using the platform-independent parts (Java-Classes) from Sun ? Quite hard actually. First and foremost, you *can't* use Sun's java classes

Re: How hard would be an OpenSource JVM ?

2004-09-01 Thread Radu-Adrian Popescu
theUser BL wrote: Hi! I have a problem with it, that Java isn't OpenSource. There existing programs like gcj, kaffe, kisseme, sablevm, etc. which want to run Java-binaries. But all are not 100% compatible with Suns Java and so can't called "Java". And they are all more in Java1.1 state, then in J