Re: LO removing Java, why would they want to? (Re: [api-dev] Java-Midi not working on Mac?

Am 27.12.2010 09:22, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:

> At the moment there is indeed no real technical reason to remove Java.
> Ok on Mac OS there exists some problems (only a few use cases) but i
> hope that this can be solved in the future.
>

Technical reasons:
More dependencies than necessary.
Compare the cold start times with and without Java.

> Sorry that i have put this sentence with removing Java in LibO in the
> game.

It was Rony who asked a reasonable question in the subject line. From my 
point of view it would be possible to remove the Java dependencies from 
the built-in features once you dropped the embedded HSQLDB which proves 
to be failing since 5 years by now.
I do understand that Java is a holy cow for Oracle employees but you 
will not stop the discussion about it.

Good Slide! (as we say in German),
Andreas Säger