Tom Tromey wrote: > As a practical matter touching on Fedora, gcj remains the "best" way > to deliver java applications on a free system. In my opinion, other > free VMs have unacceptable performance, unacceptable platform > coverage, or both. Have you tried ikvm? Rhino runs with it successfully, so it must be fairly complete. I haven't tried anything more demanding, though. One nice thing about ikvm is that it's a JIT (or rather, uses a JIT, either Mono or .NET). This means that in use, it is much more similar to other Java implementations. Pete