[lug] java2-compatible?

Dhruva B. Reddy sledgehammer2010 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 16 16:53:55 MDT 2001


I recommend IBM's JVM.  It's faster than Sun's (Blackdown's?)

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux130/?dwzone=java

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:29:55PM -0600, quoth D. Stimits:
> Ok, I'm told I need a java2 compatible java environment. My current 1.1
> is not satisfactory, I'll either rip it out or install alongside it. But
> looking at Blackdown, which is supposed to have a java2 version, I see
> 1.x versions. Is jdk1.2 "java2 compatible"? I know somewhere in there is
> a transition that does some sort of play on numbering/versioning. If not
> 1.2, will it literally be named something like jdk2.0?
> 
> The reason I'm looking at the blackdown version is because I've heard a
> number of nice things about some of the widgets and extra classes that
> come with blackdown, but if something else is better, I'll use that.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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