Comments on: Bytecode Reverse Engineering Season 1 Episode 3 http://amitslab.com/blog/2008/08/03/bytecode-reverse-engineering-season-1-episode-3/ Informing you of my findings in the world of technology Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:37:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dmitry Leskov http://amitslab.com/blog/2008/08/03/bytecode-reverse-engineering-season-1-episode-3/#comment-15 Dmitry Leskov Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:50:06 +0000 http://amitslab.com/blog/?p=8#comment-15 "No more platform independence" is true for fairly simple, small applications that run on any version of the JRE. More complicated Java programs typically depend on the JRE version. Many of them would install a private JRE of exactly the version on which they were tested. In this case, there will be a Windows installer with the Windows JRE, a Linux installer with the Linux JRE, and a Mac installer that only works on systems with the right Mac OS X version. This is not different from having native builds for the same systems. As for "higher costs", GCJ is open source and Excelsior JET is freely available for use in public non-commercial projects. Finally, native compilers can also help you reduce the download size and disk footprint of your apps: http://www.excelsior-usa.com/java-download-size.html “No more platform independence” is true for fairly simple, small applications that run on any version of the JRE. More complicated Java programs typically depend on the JRE version. Many of them would install a private JRE of exactly the version on which they were tested. In this case, there will be a Windows installer with the Windows JRE, a Linux installer with the Linux JRE, and a Mac installer that only works on systems with the right Mac OS X version. This is not different from having native builds for the same systems.

As for “higher costs”, GCJ is open source and Excelsior JET is freely available for use in public non-commercial projects.

Finally, native compilers can also help you reduce the download size and disk footprint of your apps:

http://www.excelsior-usa.com/java-download-size.html

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