Re: [javaCompiler-users] [Fwd: Release of NativeJ (formerly known as javaCompiler) version 0.9]

[Sean M. <sm...@gm...>]

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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