Daniel Bonniot <Daniel.Bonniot <at> inria.fr> writes: > Is there any chance to have a non-Sun implementation of com.sun.*?
Pretty much zero. For two reasons: a) legal. Since it's unspecified & undocumented, it'd be very hard to write without going to the source. As SCSL is evil, I don't think anyone would want that. b) practical. As it's undocumented and unspecified, Sun is free to change it any time. They do shuffle their sun.* classes around a bit with each release, afaik, so code that uses them works by pure accident anyway. That limits the usefulness of a sun.* implementation, as you'd be stuck supporting all sorts of incompatible variants of an unsupported API. Doesn't sound like a good plan to me. :) In my experience, it's more productive to submit a bug report to upstream to write to documented APIs instead, and propose a few alternatives[1]. That way, everyone ends up being better off in the long run: the code eventually works in a predictable fashion, so upstream is happy, and it works on free runtimes, so debian users are happy. cheers, dalibor topic [1] Or even volunteer to do it, if the code really matters to you. :)
