[wmf]

What's even sadder is that was built and Sun fought against it because they were worried that devs would only compile for Win32.

[AnthonyMouse]

The trouble there is that Sun was right about that.

Doing it that way works great for open source where anyone can recompile the software for a new target, but for proprietary software they would have given you a Windows blob and that's about it.

Meanwhile the problems with Java were mostly not the JVM. Its current problem is, of course, Oracle.