From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 09 1998 - 11:25:01 EDT
Andrew sent me this mail.
I feel we should make a public statement to the list.
- Godmar
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> From: Andrew Vajoczki <avajoczki@tradeit.com>
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> Godmar,
>
> Does this imply that Kaffe does not support RMI, then?
>
> I am confused by the goals of Kaffe. It strives to
> be a clean-room reimplementation of the JVM, yet
> ignores the deprecated methods that most real world
> Java programs/applets use. If Pheonix had only re-engineered
> the public API of IBM PC BIOS years ago, they would
> have not succeeded in producing a true PC compatable.
> I suspect Sun will continue to support deprecated methods
> in all its new Java offerings, despite what they say to
> the contrary. Sun's great reluctance to change the package
> name of Swing a while back from "sun." is evidence of this.
>
> I realize this project is largely a volunteer effort,
> and I am not questioning everyone's great work, I was
> just wondering if true Sun JVM compatability is a goal.
>
> If someone submits patches to support deprecated methods
> (such as 1.02 AWT events) will the Kaffe project team
> accept these changes?
>
> -Andrew
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> it seems that Sun's own RMI implementation still uses a method that they
> deprecated, namely java/lang/SecurityManager.classLoaderDepth().
> In Kaffe, deprecated methods are no longer implemented and throw
> a kaffe.util.Deprecated message instead.
>
> - Godmar
>
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