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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!hookup!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD adopt Java like everybody else? Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 01:25:42 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <318C6606.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <4m6gdj$8h8@sidhe.memra.com> <4m8abh$7tf@samba.rahul.net> <4makql$1ab@zip0.zipnet.net> <4me2dv$1aq@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Ben Cottrell <benco@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Ben Cottrell wrote: > The magic number for Java files is 0xCAFEBABE. The only other thing Cute.. :-) My bigger question, however, is whether or not a freely available JVM is available for us to imbed into the kernel as a java image activator. Since image activators can also be LKMs (e.g. not distributed with the default kernel, but loaded dynamically at run time the first time a user tries to execute a compiled java executable), I don't see a big "pollution" problem with going this way so much as I see simple copyright problems if Sun is being too closed with their implementation of the JVM executor code. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project