Alternative classes.zip (was Re: JNI support?)

[Artur Biesiadowski]

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Per Bothner wrote:

> I have not looked at kore, so I cannot comment on it specifically.
> (There are at least two projects to replace classes.zip, and I
> don't know whihc is better or farther along.  Tim knows more.)
> In any case, we *will* need a replacement for Sun's classes.zip.

What kind of replacement it is going to be ?
Will it be just a rewrite of all classes in slightly different way (do not
makes much sense to me ) or library with similar functionality but
different classes/method names etc. ?
I mean if it will be fully compatible with sun's classes ?
If not what parts will be different (I think that at least java.lang.*
should be the same) ?

Artur