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Re: Microsoft's Java efforts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cjs)
Thu Mar 28 15:07:07 1996

Date:         Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:42:09 -0800
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From: cjs <cjs@NETCOM.COM>
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In-Reply-To:  <9603191350.AA19055@ns1.ctlnet.com> from "Global" at Mar 19,
              96 08:50:17 am

> >  * Java VM _is_ and ActiveX control.  In other words, the Java VM,
> >including the JIT compiler, is a COM object in all of its glory.  So
> >any Win32 application, no matter what language it is written in, can
> >embed Java easily.  In addition, MS is extending the Java Applet
> >framework to transparently interoperate with Win32 events and
> >display.

Eeeek!

We need a libjava or something for Unix which will allow us to have
easy java integration like those Windows geeks now have. =P

Christopher

PS The part about JIT compiling was cool, and I think someone has
   already done that for Linux.

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