JSP Servlet container / WEB server

Sun Jul 20 15:41:00 GMT 2003

> Ignoring the JDK will assuredly marginalize GCJ. Nothing stops GCJ from having its
> own strengths while still luring people over with compatibility promises, either
> present or future.

Ok. Making it wholy incompatible wouldn't be such a good move at this point in time.
The question remains, however, how far to go in running after the JDK? I just feel
that it has really gone far enough now. I hope that the GCJ team takes into
consideration that performance, executable size, and keeping the thing simple, are
issues as well. If running after the JDK means sacrificing any of those, could one
carefully reconsider prior to committing to that?
By the way, in my opinion, the JDK will sooner or later fall on its face. There are
too many important areas where it doesn't hold its beer.
> That's also why I'm a believer in MingW GCJ as a tool to lure Win32 people to the
> Open Source movement. (Are you listening, you-know-who?)

Yes.
We should not compromise on its un*x origins though. Let GCJ definitely be involved
in creating attractive GUIs for Windows. That's the only win32 strength anyway.
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