At 08:56 AM 5/24/00 -0700, Marc Stiegler wrote:
>I just got email notification that Sun has officially shipped java 1.3. It
>includes a client hotspot jvm, and they claim a 40% decrease in startup time
>and a 25% decrease in RAM footprint, both of which are very attractive.
>
>If I try to run this, will I run into the same problem with the cryptix
>libraries that I ran into with the IBM jvm?
>
>Meanwhile, markm, it would seem that putting off till tomorrow what you
>could do today sometimes pays off. I believe that java 1.3 will supercede
>1.2 with much greater speed than 1.2 is supplanting 1.1 (the big holdup was
>the browsers, neither netscape nor microsoft have yet made their browsers
>move to 1.2, presumably the new plugin architectures will make 1.3 as
>straightforward an upgrade as 1.2). Consequently, I think you should
>implement deflectors for 1.3, and forget 1.2, since for 1.3 it is trivial.