JDK1.2

[Per Bothner]

Leach, David wrote:

>Anyone know if there are plans to release gcj with support for the 1.2
>version of the JDK?
>
This is a mis-conceived question.  Gcj is an *alternative* to JDK.  It 
does not
work *with* JDK, so it cannot possibly "support" any version JDK.  (The
question could make sense in terms of interoperability e.g. RMI, but then
it should have been more specific.)

Now if you mean "are there plans to release a version of gcj with all
the *features* of the 1.2 version of the JDK?" then the answer is "no",
at least not in any reasonable time-frame, unless Sun open-sources more
of JDK, or someone invests a *lot* of money into re-implementing Java 2,
which as you know is huge.

But parts of Java 2, such as collections, are already implemented.

    --Per