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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff.Kesselman@netcom.com)
Sun Jun 11 21:57:11 1995
From: Jeff.Kesselman@netcom.com
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 18:36:34 +0000
Here's a thought.
It seems to me that most of the portability issues in a UNIX version
of Java are in the AWT toolkit. (Not everyone cxan ru nX and even
fewer people have Motif.)
Not every Java application though necessarily needs this toolkit.
many servers for instance woudl not require it.
What IMO would be great would be a gnu-like release of the core Java
system (interpreter and the truely portable classes) that would
recompile under GCC and Gnu Make. If there ere flags and conditional
code for S5V4 and BSD, that woudl be 90% of the work in porting it
to ANY UNIX platform already completed (assuming Java does not
contain too many dependancies on the underlying machine organization
like endian-ness. These too COUDL be flagged.) In short, a Java
release that is as easy to port as Gnu Smalltalk I think would REALLY
help the java evangelization effort....
Jeff Kesselman
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