From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 14:56:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75ADB106568B for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:56:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from smadev.internal.net (host3.dynacom.ondsl.gr [62.103.35.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE788FC14 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smadev.internal.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smadev.internal.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nBGEu8Ug078383 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:56:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by smadev.internal.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id nBGEu8LF078382 for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:56:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) From: Achilleas Mantzios Organization: Dynacom Tankers Mgmt To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:56:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200912161656.07886.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> Subject: General thoughts on java@freebsd-8/amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:56:12 -0000 Hello, (sorry for having missed some of the latest developments in FreeBSD-Java in the last couple of years). The last few days, i have been deploying a new machine (AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor) with FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, as my main (next) development platform. I noticed that - diablo-jdk1.6.0/amd64 is not precompiled for FreeBSD 8.0, (but for FreeBSD 7.0) shouldn't there be one? - there is openjdk16, which says that it will supercede jdk16 in the future, but the maintainer is not Greg Lewis, what is Greg's involvement/relationship with this? - there is no openjdk17 port, it is expected to be available in the future? - javawrapper does not behave like it used to. Now it is basically relying on /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.java.mk Anyway, I installed diablo-jdk1.6.0 (for FreeBSD 7.0) from ports, and openjdk6 from ports, haven't installed any real app to do performance testing. Has anyone done any comparisons? Anyway, I would like to give Greg, the FreeBSD Foundation, and all others which contrubuted many many thanks for providing java to FreeBSD all those years. -- Achilleas Mantzios