Java becomes more distributable

Posted May 17, 2006 20:29 UTC (Wed) by kfiles (guest, #11628)
Parent article: Java becomes more distributable

This would absolutely seem to exclude the combination of Sun JDK and Eclipse (and also Tomcat), as eclipse includes its own compiler and runtime, eclipse-jdt, also used by Tomcat to compile JSPs.

Obviously, it's intended to exclude things like gcj and classpath specifically, despite their great usefulness in creating native apps out of Java bytecode, a feature not offered by Sun.

Thanks,
--kirby

Excluding GNU Classpath innovation?

Posted May 18, 2006 6:47 UTC (Thu) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

Obviously, it's intended to exclude things like gcj and classpath specifically, despite their great usefulness in creating native apps out of Java bytecode, a feature not offered by Sun.

Next they will try to exclude Mono, because guess what? Mono includes GNU Classpath! Through IKVM it has a very interesting bridge between the C# and java programming languages. Reading the blog of Jeroen Frijters (or any of the blogs from Planet Classpath) is a facinating. GNU Classpath has become a catalyst for useful (and of course less useful) experiments and innovation that nobody can stop or exclude anymore (imho).