On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:17, Michael Koch wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 13:52 schrieb Derek Broughton: > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 06:42, Michael Koch wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 11:35 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj > > Andersen: > > > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:38, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > > > Or maybe Sable VM (not sure if there is a Debian package for > > > > > it) > > > > > > > > It's in unstable. And I seem to remember that it is in fact the > > > > recommended free jvm for Debian. > > > > > > Where have you read this ? As a free java developer and part of > > > the Debian Java effort I would recommend kaffe. > > > > Oh, please. Neither one of them appears to support Java2 (at > > least, they don't provide java2-runtime). That puts them so far > > behind the state of the art as to be worthless. > > They dont provide it because Swing is not complete (but mostly > working). Other things like NIO are better supported. E.g. Tomcat 5.5 > and Eclipse 3 can be run with today's free runtimes. I don't call > this useless. Its even possible to compile Eclipse 3 to native and > use it.
If I can't use Swing, it's useless. Sorry, but we're years past that. I tried to use kaffe, but I have to go back and rewrite far too much. -- derek
