GCJ with OpenJDK Java API instead of GNU Classpath

Thu May 7 16:25:00 GMT 2009

On Thu, 2009年05月07日 at 16:28 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009年5月7日 Chris Gray <chris.gray@kiffer.be>:
> >
> > Quoth Andrew John Hughes:
> >> > Huh? I was assuming Java compatibility was the goal.
> >
> > Compatibility with the non-existent specification for Java 7, or with the
> > equally non-existent JCK for Java 7 (for which there is no JSR)? <G, D & R>
> >
> Neither; the JCK for OpenJDK6 which the builds of IcedTea in Fedora have passed:
> http://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/

I don't think that is a serious option, that is only available under NDA
and only granted to people who sign an SCA with Sun and even then access
is only granted if Sun feels like it.
That said, adopting something like jigsaw for the core class library and
then having the option to switch modules seems a fine idea.
Compatibility is much more about running actually code than some opaque
proprietary test suite.
Cheers,
Mark