On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: > > >On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tom Badran wrote: > > > >>have the sun jdk installed and dont want to install the blackdown one just > >>to > >> > > > >Someone mentioned he's updating that one to the latest available version. > >Haven't seen much activity though. :( > > > Updating what to the latest version? The dummy package? The debianised blackdown jdk. It's still at a version 1+ years old and multiple releases have seen the light of day. > What are people's thoughts on how far away we are from having a real > java2-runtime. I'd like to see this become a reality, as we have more > and more apps that use it. Limewire needs it. If you include the entire set of java(x) libraries in your definition of java2-runtime it is probaly quite far away. I remember seeing a list of java-classes used by OpenOffice and currently not implemented in a free version. Even discounting the sun-classes it was depressingly long. But a lot can happen in less than two months I guess. IIRC it originated from a post to the kaffe-ml. They might know more about its current status. regards, Thomas -- Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!