I can still download javaCompiler 0.8, including source, online.. if the
license for that permits, we may be able to fork it under another name
and continue to improve it F/OSS style. Sounds like it's gone the way of
NJawin, but imho Jawin is way better anyway, and it's Open Source, so...
I'm disappointed, but not altogether surprised... In Marco's defense,
Java developers' tools have a bad history with becoming closed source
after a time, for whatever reason. Ambitious projects coded in C with
end-users as targets may well get more donations/funding. Us developers
expect everything to be handed to us.
Be that as it may, I am saddened to see another OSS project dry up, and
I hope we can make the best of it by using Marco's work as a basis for
other projects. I may begin learning the internals of javaCompiler and,
while not necessarily using the JavaCompiler GUI, I'll take the time to
learn what goes wrong in the native compilation of several popular Java
programs. My goal will be to try and get some popular OSS Java programs
compiled into native ELF32 and Win32 binaries for ease of distribution.
I have several SWT programs in mind that should be easier to get working
than the Swing/AWT ones.
And yes, it would appear that it competes directly with Excelsior JET
(of which I have used a trial and it seems shockingly similar in
purpose...!) Only difference is that Excelsior's whole toolchain is
built on proprietary technology, right? They didn't use MingW too, did
they?!
Sean
Hendy Irawan wrote:
>> - Changed it from free to cost 39.90$ per developer
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> So... It's out of the open source world?
> This competes with Excelsior JET, if I get this correctly?
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