Roman Rokytskyy wrote:

>>Yah that is why oracle uses it's own jdk (vm) when is installed
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>I suspect that reason is more the garbage collector and JIT compiler
>than class file version.
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>>Maybe in the future , firebird could use one of the open source vm's
>>http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/
>>http://www.kaffe.org/
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Kaffee is pure GPL, which rules it out. Classpath is also GPLed but
with an exception that I don't understand. It appears to say that
Classpath is subject to GPL but no provisions of GPL actually apply.
How much longer can we work in this industry without a law degree?

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Jim Starkey
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