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What's the enterprise-level feature differentiation he's referring to? Surely the point of Java having a reference implementation is that any JAR will run on any JVM?


Encryption on disk/tape and CORBA endpoints to z/OS legacy.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/products/j...


monitoring, perhaps interesting memory reclamation issues, GC tweaking, yadda yadda. there are lots of features that have absolutely nothing to do with formal language semantics.


Exactly: Diagnosability and serviceability features (especially when deeply integrated with the underlying OS), code generation algorithms optimized for specific hardware, GC algorithms tuned to specific memory hierarchies, etc.




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