GCJ/libgcj capabilities

[Daniel P. Zepeda]

Thus spake Matt Welsh on Fri, 15 Oct 1999:
> Just look in the 'libjava' directory of libgcj and see what classes are
> there. Most GUI stuff isn't there yet, that's true, but many of the other
> classes are easy to add if they don't yet exist.

Thank you for that pointer. This is what I needed. I guess I should have
known to look in there to find out what is there. 

I also thank you for the concise explanation of some of the issue
surrounding Java. I appreciate that. 

 
> Can you say "vendor lock-in", boys and girls? Oh, wait a minute -- I thought
> Java was supposed to *eliminate* vendor lock-in? Boy am I confused.

I'm not.  I've thought for a long time that there would be these sorts of
issues come along. It doesn't make economic sense for Sun to create this
platform without maintaining some type of hold on it, to make their money.
After all, Sun is just another big corporation. This "write once, read
many" idea, although technologically possbile -- if not difficult -- is
just so much marketing swill. 

 > 
> Matt Welsh, UC Berkeley
> 
> "Daniel P. Zepeda" <dpz@pobox.com> writes:
> > HI,
> > 	I've perused the limited documentation available on the website.
> > Is it up to date? I'm interested in using GCJ, and from what others have
> > mentioned on other lists, it seemed to be a usable product. But from what
> > I see on the website it is not ready for primetime development of
> > applications. I can't tell from the list traffic I've seen what the state
> > really is for it. Could someone give me a direct answer about current
> > capabilities?  For instance, can I use AWT? Swing? JNI? all of the IO and
> > util classes that I'm used to like StringTokenizer(), Random() etc? I've
> > downloaded it onto a Mandake 6.0 + updates, kernel 2.2.12 machine. I
> > successfully built GCJ, but have problems with libgcj. I want to know if
> > it is going to be worth my time and trouble to get it all installed on my
> > system. 
> > 
> >   --
> > Daniel P. Zepeda
> > dpz@pobox.com
> > 
> > "In complete darkness, we are all the same. Only our knowledge and wisdom 
> > separates us there." -- J. Jackson
--
Daniel P. Zepeda
dpz@pobox.com

"In complete darkness, we are all the same. Only our knowledge and wisdom 
separates us there." -- J. Jackson