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Re: What in 1.5 is non-Java?



Check this out for a discussion of the above:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=316&thread=503547

Dan.

P.S.  Basically, there are some nasty bits that make it nigh on impossible.

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.

Granted, version 1.5 has lots of changes in the actual language, but from what I understand, these changes are mostly cosmetic and do not change the actual bytecode the compiler produces. If that's the case, shouldn't someone be able to make the new 1.5 classes available to the JRE and provide 1.5 considerably earlier?

For that matter, since the complier is basically a command-line program, shouldn't the Solaris code basically translate without much changing to OS X?

Or is there more going on here than I think?

Todd

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