Re:Oracle and the fall of Java EE
by ghurtado on Friday July 08, 2016 @11:16AM
(#12056099)
Besides the fact that this is a very contrived example, and that this is not how I would go about managing firewall rules (why wouldn't you use ports / services? You trust the security of your PC on just the name of the application?), this is not true in many cases. To pick one: Eclipse (A Java app) does not identify itself as "java.exe".
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Oracle and the fall of Java EE
by prodigal_erik on Friday July 08, 2016 @04:31PM
(#12058424)
Eclipse isn't a java app, it's a native app that happens to start a JVM that drives native widgets. If you ship a new platform tomorrow, and someone ports a JVM to it, java apps will Just Work, but eclipse still won't run until SWT and the launcher get ported.