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Let's not oversell that. There are maybe in total 2 compilers out there which are still usable (i. e. not 10 years out of date and unmaintained). The specific
by premium-concern 10y ago
Let's not oversell that.
There are maybe in total 2 compilers out there which are still usable (i. e. not 10 years out of date and unmaintained).
The specification is "open" in the sense that you can't build your own implementation of Java without accepting a proprietary licensing agreement with Oracle (assuming you even get one).
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- mike_hearn 10y agoThe latter is not correct. You can do it and people have.
- premium-concern 10y agoThat's wrong. Feel free to present an example.
- mike_hearn 10y agoAndroid is one obvious example. GNU Classpath is another. Avian is another.
- premium-concern 10y agoSorry, but no. None of them can passed the JCK, which is a requirement to certify a Java implementation.
- mike_hearn 10y agoYour original statement was you can't BUILD an implementation without getting Oracle's blessing. Now you've switched to saying you can't CERTIFY which is a different claim.
- premium-concern 10y agoI understand that you are trying to play semantics here, but in this case it doesn't work. You can't BUILD an implementation of Java, because "Java" is defined by "passes the Java conformance tests". You can build "something", but it won't be Java, so don't call it Java. Even Google understood that.