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Progress on (Sun compatible) Java
If it walks like a duck and quacks like duck ... it's only a duck if it
passes the Duck Compatibility Kit test framework by the duck's inventor.
Well, that at least goes for Sun's Java. While binary kits running under
Linux emulation or even some native, homegrewn binaries built e.g. from
pkgsrc-wip are available for NetBSD, none of these is officially accepted by
Sun, esp. for redistribution per FTP etc., as it's not sure that it's really
compatible with what Sun defines as Java.
To be sure of that compatibility, a (non-public) software component, the
Java Compatibility Kit (JCK) needs to be run, which tests all aspects of
Java on the platform in question, and only if it does so without an error
you have something which Sun will allow redistribution for.
Some work on this front is now taking place inside NetBSD, and the current
state of art is that from the 33.000 tests in the JCK, about 500 failed on
NetBSD in the first tests. After some adjusting to both the operating system
and the machine/architecture dependent parts of Java, this is down to about
50 now. Maybe not too long until an official Java is available for NetBSD -
but of course the last bugs to remain will be the toughest ones.
Stay tuned!
[Tags: java]
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