Re:IT Runs on Java 8
by ksec on Saturday May 11, 2019 @01:33AM
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>Plus the acronyms.
GCJ and Excelsior are really niche, even people familiar with Java ecosystem might not known them as they are mostly used for AOT ( Ahead of Time ) Compiling Java into a Single redsitrbutuamble binary in the early 2000s. I was writing RSS Web Server application then and was looking into how to do Client Side Desktop Apps.... UI toolkit was a bag of hurt for Java, and I gathered that is still the case today.
I think JakartaEE is really just a rebranded JavaEE.
I know Graal only because I follow TruffleRuby, which is a new JVM written in Java. And it has proved that optimising Ruby, once thought as impossible due to its dynamic nature to be possible.
GCJ and Excelsior are really niche, even people familiar with Java ecosystem might not known them as they are mostly used for AOT ( Ahead of Time ) Compiling Java into a Single redsitrbutuamble binary in the early 2000s. I was writing RSS Web Server application then and was looking into how to do Client Side Desktop Apps.... UI toolkit was a bag of hurt for Java, and I gathered that is still the case today.
I think JakartaEE is really just a rebranded JavaEE.
I know Graal only because I follow TruffleRuby, which is a new JVM written in Java. And it has proved that optimising Ruby, once thought as impossible due to its dynamic nature to be possible.