libgcj has some j2ee classes but not all

Thu Aug 7 04:21:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Boder <icanoop@bitwiser.org> writes:

Ryan> One problem I ran into with the jboss client was duplicate
Ryan> classes between libgcj and the jboss package.
Yeah, this is a known limitation of gcj. We'll be addressing it in
the future with the "new ABI". If you search the list archives you
can find more discussion on this bug and also on the ABI plans.
Ryan> I worked around it by removing the individual class files
Ryan> from jboss-j2ee.jar (client class library) that libgcj already
Ryan> has.
Yes, that's the workaround.
Ryan> The workaround is OK, but inconvenient. If gcj is going to
Ryan> implement some of the j2ee API, why not all of it?
We're trying to write it all, but there are a limited number of
volunteers, and the Java API is very large.
Ryan> You could merge the jboss implementations with libgcj in the
Ryan> same way you've merged the gnu classpath classes with gjc.
It all depends on the licensing and copyright assignment stuff.
Tom