>I've often wondered why OS vendors, especially Microsoft, are not putting
>Java support right into existing operating systems (or maybe they are and
I
>haven't noticed it). In this way Java classes can be treated like
>dynamically linked libraries (aka shared objects) and shared across
>processes, significantly reducing resource requirements and decreasing
>startup times on systems that are running multiple Java processes.
There are potential issues with sharing classes. One of these is static
members. If program A initializes a static variable to one value then
program B goes and changes that then you've got a potential problem. I
believe this is a weakness in Java that needs to be looked at by Sun. This
doesn't necessarily need to be built into the operating system to work
either. It could be done so that the first call the JRE creates the VM and
subsequent calls connect to existing VM's. I believe there's a project
that does a similar thing already. I can't think of the URL.
-- Glen
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