[Info-vax] Java portability and VMS

[Bob Koehler]

Wendell <wendellxe at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> Of course, it always takes special care to write Java programs to be
> platform-independent, but this sounds like any significant application
> would require special porting to run on VMS. Is that true?

   In general, no.  For years we used our VMS systems as our main
   development platforms for Java and then ported the applications
   to other OS.  The biggest issues were what path to use to save
   preference files in, and a bunch of Windows systems that were frozen
   at a JRE to old to have some routines we called.

   I did write a TPU CALL_USER function to save .java files as 
   stream-lf, which makes jdb much happier.  TPU tends to write all
   text files as variable-length record format, and I wanted to keep
   using all my other TPU code.  EDT doesn't generally have this
   problem, as long as you are editting an existing file.

   I think a lot of what you read stems from the writer's ignorance
   of VMS and using the JDK on it.