[sldev] Sun's Java (oh, and Mono)

[Dzonatas]

For those that already started to ask (you know who you are) how, why, 
what it means -- or even the "that would be a lot of work to redo Mono"

Look here: http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/

Most of the hard work is done already. Kudos to those authors!

note: you might need to recompile the source for the latest jvm & mozilla

Dzonatas wrote:
> I've notice through slashdot and some stories (don't ask) that Sun has 
> made the intent with their license scheme more clear.
>
> That brings Java back to the table for a more direct (or pluggable) 
> language for user-space only (no system interface as even Sun suggests).
>
> There is a lot of enterprise work already done in java that I hate to 
> see be thrown away and restarted from scratch. I know there is a more 
> indirect way to access java script through the viewer now, so it is 
> obvious that it is wanted. I think it would be good to close that one 
> little gap there for the client side.
>
> I don't if you ever compared JVM and Mono together, but Mono looks 
> like a pinto bean under the hood. To Mono developers, I suggest to 
> learn from Mono and make a light-weight Mono abstraction that can ride 
> in the JVM. That way we can have a potluck of  fat free mixed beans.
>
> =)
>
>
> ++ Sol
>

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