Kaffe and Cygnus Java plans

Per Bothner kaffe@rufus.w3.org
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:41:40 -0700


> Per, your updated webpage still says you're 'enhancing the existing Kaffe
> free Java VM to make it full-strength and to support linking with 
> pre-compiled class libraries.'

After I wrote my message, I noticed the updated web page needs a few
more updates...

> The native libraries need to be rewritten to 
> use JNI, but that's at this point more of a monotonic task.

We are not using JNI for our native libraries, as explained on
the web page.

There are also some legal issues that make (some of) us nervous
about Kaffe, at least for now.

	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions     bothner@cygnus.com     http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner