Re: [TCLUG:6797] AlphaWorks JVM vs Blackdowns JVM for linux

[Perry Hoekstra <dutchman@uswest.net>]

At 10:40 AM 7/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Bob Tanner wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any expirences they would like to share with the LUG about
>> AlphaWorks JVM vs the Blackdown JVM?
>
>Hmmm...  I haven't used em.  I guess I am coming into the discussion a
>little late, but why use a JVM at all?  Doesn't the new Linux kernel
>support java executables by default?  

Can you point to a document that states this?  You can convert a Java
application over to native execution module using various tools but I had
not heard that the linux kernel has the ability to run Java bytecodes.

>If not, can't you use the SUN JDK's?

The Sun JDK (whatever version) has to run on top of a virtual machine which
has to be implemented for the platform desired.



Perry Hoekstra - dutchman@mn.uswest.net
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