Re: Potential new recruit to Java. Could I/Should I use Java?

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:06:57 -0000, <petermichaux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David N. Welton wrote:

Javascript ships with Firefox, which, being open source
software, is available for more platforms than Sun's version of Java.
(Think of the matrix between OS's like Linux and the BSD's and the
hardware they run on, such as PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, and so on - certainly,
we're talking about insignificant market share, but, still...)


For which platforms is Sun's Java available? (Probably all the ones I
want but I'm curious. Maybe a Sun web link?)

All you have to do is go to the download page and find out for yourself.

Sun provides versions for Windows, x86 Linux, x86 Solaris and Sparc Solaris. All of these are available for both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware.

IBM and Apple also provide Java implementations for their platforms, based on technology licensed from Sun. That adds AIX, z/OS, PowerPC Linux and Mac OS X to the list. You can get Java for Sparc Linux from Blackdown.org. BEA have some decent VMs, but only for x86 platforms.

There are also clean-room Java implementations that are nothing to do with Sun, such as Kaffe for Linux and BSD.

Dan.


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