Re: Fwd: Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-23 Thread Nathan Meyers
Yavor Kolarov wrote: > > There are some additional problems. > > If we have a wrapper starting all programs it has to be able to: > - open news windows and frames on a specific X terminal. ( User A running > Java application on localhost:0.0 and user B on localhost:1.0) > This raises the questio

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-23 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Yavor Kolarov wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who replied! > > It is clear that JVM can't be part of the kernel. Because of three main > reasons: > 1. Java is not GPL'ed > 2. the more code in the kernel the worse. Java is too big and not so stable. > You don't want different people sharing the j

Re: Fwd: Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-23 Thread allen petersen
you know, it would probably make a whole lot more sense to integrate the jvm with something like gnome or kde rather than with the operating system itself. that way you skip the various xdisplay problems (since you'll necessarily have an x environment associated with your session) and you don'

Re: Fwd: Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-23 Thread Nathan Meyers
allen petersen wrote: > > you know, it would probably make a whole lot more sense to integrate the jvm > with something like gnome or kde rather than with the operating system itself. > that way you skip the various xdisplay problems (since you'll necessarily have > an x environment associated wi