Todd O'Bryan wrote:
| So, it seems that most of what Sun provides is just Java code for
| various added APIs with new releases of software.
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| ...
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| Or is there more going on here than I think?
Much more. Many of the library classes call native methods to do the heavy lifting; every one of those methods has to be implemented and debugged anew for each platform. (For example, the "concurrency" classes require the implementation of the machinery which allows lock-free access to variables shared across threads.)
Glen Fisher
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