Any redhat people around?

[Andrew Haley]

Erik Poupaert writes:
 > 
 > 
 > > It's instructive to read James Gosling's views on Open
 > > Source Java:
 > > 
 > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/13/HNgosling_1.html?development
 > > 
 > 
 > Since the JDK is built on a JNI native multiplatform layer, while
 > GCJ sits on a CNI native multiplatform layer, I guess open-sourcing
 > the JDK would primarily help GCJ in the java part.

Indeed.  But of course most of libgcj is written in Java, and I
presume that the same is true of the JDK.

What would be really good for open source Java is freeing the JCK.

 > Maybe someone could write a tool to convert JNI native sources to
 > CNI ?

Maybe.  It would somewhat improve efficiency.

Andrew.