On 26/11/13 10:40, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz> wrote:
On 26/11/13 03:28, askoh wrote:
Bravo Jan and your collaborators. You have done it.
Thanks.
Anything preventing STX:LIBJAVA from being used in production environments?
Good question. STX:LIBJAVA is still a research phase. However, if everything goes fine, we might have first project using it for real in couple months.
What is important is also the licence. Do you use an open-source licence ?
Strictly speaking - no. For various, historical reasons. The Smalltalk part STX:LIBJAVA support code is available under the same terms as Smalltalk/X itself [1]. The code of the VM is not publicly available for various reasons, though it is possible to get an access. Ask Claus Gittinger if you're interested in details.
Anything preventing Pharo and VisualWorks for using the technology also?
Short answer: Time and money. The way we did it requires significant changes to the virtual machine (as we believe this is the only way to get a decent performance). Indeed, if somebody going to pay for it, everything's possible ;-)
You should try to ask ESUG about financial support.
Maybe I should. But frankly - how many people in this community are like "That would be great, I need this feature!" Raise hands. :-) Cheers, Jan [1] http://www.exept.de/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/stx/README?view=markup