Allan Staller writes:
>It was my impression that the IBM JVM was a port directly from
>SUN (now ORACLE). I am not sure whether IBM or SUN/ORACLE was
>doing the porting.

"Direct port" is not a fair description, no. I guess that information was
just revealed if you weren't aware of it. :-)

"Conforming implementation," yes.

>In many of the issues I have been involved in, the SUN/ORACLE web
>documentation was perfectly applicable to the IBM JVM.

That's because IBM Java is a (very popular) conforming implementation.
There's comparatively little implementation-specific documentation because
that's rather the point of Java (and its specifications).

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Timothy Sipples
Consulting Enterprise IT Architect (Based in Singapore)
E-Mail: [email protected]

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