This page is designed to explain a little about what the GNU project
is doing working with Java and about the imperative behind GNU-Paperclips
in particular.
What is the GNU-Project?
A project started by Richard Stallman to build a complete and free operating
system. You can find out more about what this means here. You can find
out what the word free means in this context here.
The GNU project is run by the Free Software Federation, a not for profit
organisation.
Where does Java fit in?
These days an operating system has to have Java support. The GNU-Project
recognised this very early on and several projects were started to build
free implementations of the Java platform. You can find out about the GNU-Projects
operating system support for Java here.
Although the official system programming language of the GNU-Project
is C a large number of Java programs has been submitted. These cover everything
from network servers to Scheme compilers.
You can find out about the GNU-Projects Java programs here.
What about GNU-Paperclips?
GNU-Paperclips is the official GNU Project Servlet Engine. It can also
function as a web server. There are other free servlet engines though,
GNU-Paperclips is not the only choice.
| Created: 1 July 1999 |
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Author: Nic Ferrier |
