[antlr-interest] Re: Managed to compile under .Net !!

Anthony W Youngman Anthony.Youngman at ECA-International.com
Thu Jul 3 01:47:53 PDT 2003


Where's the legal stuff saying it CAN'T be compatible?

The whole legal fuss was over the fact that MS was calling their stuff
"Java" when it couldn't pass the certification tests, and was
*deliberately* making their implementation appear to produce portable
code when it was stuffed with Win32 extensions.

As far as I know, there is ABSOLUTELY NO BARRIER to MS including
Java-compatibility stuff. The two points at issue are that MS is acting
like a spoilt brat, and that Sun got an injunction saying that MS
couldn't call it "Java" unless it could pass the Java-compatibility
tests (or in other words "don't abuse our trademark").

Cheers,
Wol.

-----Original Message-----
From: tdjastrzebski [mailto:tdjastrzebski at yahoo.com] 
Sent: 02 July 2003 23:10
To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [antlr-interest] Re: Managed to compile under .Net !!


> I was also able to use J# to generate Tool.exe file for .NET
> As Tom mentioned, there was only one change needed, which it seems 
Microsoft
> team missed from their java library implementation.

They did not forget. This is a legal issue. J# can be Java compatible 
up to version 1.1.4 while File.getParentFile() was introduced in jdk 
1.2.
Tom Jastrzebski


 

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