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Subject: 	[SaLUG!] Call for Help su java e flash
From: 	Andrea Russo <rast***@salug.it>
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A tutti gli hacker volenterosi:

http://www.fsf.org/news/free-java-and-flash.html

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dalle FAQ del progetto GCJ: http://gcc.gnu.org/java/faq.html


2.1 What Java API's are supported? How complete is the support?
        Matt Welsh writes: 
                Just look in the 'libjava' directory of libgcj and see
                what classes are there. Most GUI stuff isn't there yet,
                that's true, but many of the other classes are easy to
                add if they don't yet exist. 
                
                I think it's important to stress that there is a big
                difference between Java and the many libraries which
                Java supports. Unfortunately, Sun's promise of "write
                once, run everywhere" assumes much more than a JVM: you
                also need the full set of JDK libraries. Considering
                that new Java APIs come out every week, it's going to be
                impossible to track everything. 
                
                To make things worse, you can't simply run Sun's JDK
                classes on any old JVM -- they assume that a bunch of
                native methods are also defined. Since this native
                method requirement isn't defined by the JDK specs,
                you're effectively constrained to using Sun's JVMs if
                you want to use Sun's JDK libraries. Oh yes -- you could
                also reimplement all of those native methods yourself,
                and make sure they behave exactly as Sun's do. Note that
                they're undocumented! 
                


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