Re: How mature are the Free Software efforts on Java?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Norbert" == Norbert Bollow <address@hidden> writes:

Norbert>   I've been lurking for a while but still haven't been able to
Norbert> figure out how mature the Free Software efforts on Java really
Norbert> are...  are the essential components mostly working?

Yes, they are.  You can run real, useful applications using gcj right
now, and people do.  You can see a bunch of open source Java projects
running under gcj here:

    http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/

Norbert> Or do you need more volunteers?

Always.  Java is huge and gets bigger regularly.  There are still many
missing pieces, and of course there is always a lot of testing to be
done.

Tom