16 Oct
2005
16 Oct
'05
6:19 p.m.
Gil Carrick wrote:
Proprietary to a single vendor.
Well the syntax is... but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing
(as otherwise there'd be a bazillion ways of doing any one thing and
we'd end up with C++ :-)
Far as I recall the bytecode spec is freely available though, so anyone
can write a compiler, VM, native compiler, or other utility.
Plus of course the flexibility's there to override most of the core
stuff if needs be (dynamically, if one so choses), so it's not the case
at all that you're stuck with the Sun way of doing things (agreed that
the Web application side of it is a bloody nightmare though!)
cheers
J.
...
I missed the OP doing that - what was the reason? Native-compiled Java.
Ruled out.
Gil