I am not familiar with the PHP4 versus PHP5 battle. What in particular are
you referring to?
(and for those wondering why the "claim to be Java" is so important, it is
to avoid the little nasty corner cases which usually bite you in production.
Passing the TCK (allowing you to claim to be Java) catches most of these).
Proof: Look at OpenJDK - tiny issues in the corners which all in all cause
the instinctive reflex to any problem to be "install Sun JDK and see if it
goes away". It usually do.
/Thorbjørn
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: 10. december 2010 20:23
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee
Sorry, I didn't mean it that way. I should have been more specific: this
limtitation prevents Harmony from running on an appliance and claiming to
be Java compatible.
It's really a tempest in a teapot, at least for now. As Thorbjørn noted,
SE 6 is perfectly adequate for anything coming down the pike. If Oracle
does indeed force a fork between "official" SE 7 and the current open
source JVM, it will be interesting to see how the open source community
rects - will new libraries use only SE 6 capabilities? Oracle is in
danger of turning Java into PHP - the PHP4 vs PHP5 battle is still not
pretty.
Joe
I don't agree with Joe that Oracle doesn't want Java running on embedded
devices. Yes Oracles bread and butter is on the server side, but the
server
side usually talks to some kind of device on the user end.
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