Interesting spin

Posted Aug 29, 2003 20:24 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Interesting spin by sab39
Parent article: IBM to release new Eclipse to run on Jikes VM (NewsForge)

It's strange for IBM to be supporting JikesRVM which virtually nobody uses, versus gcj which is well established in the community.

Java software is supposed to run on every standard compliant Java machine (whether it's a bytecode interpreter, a JIT or a compiler with supporting libraries). I know that the reality is sometimes different from the design goals, but still you seem to go too far in your assumptions

As I understand it, the IBM press release is about Jikes VM that is now good enough to run Eclipse rather than about Eclipse broken enough to run on Jikes VM only, despite it (Eclipse) being a Java program.