Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 01:46:51 +0100 From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> To: di0s@alt-hacker.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Java5 and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20041002004651.GH29161@lb.tenfour> In-Reply-To: <774016CA-140B-11D9-AFE9-000A958D061C@mac.com> References: <774016CA-140B-11D9-AFE9-000A958D061C@mac.com>
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* De Savant <desavant@mac.com> [1038 01:38]: > I was looking around with this latest announcement of Sun's Java2 1.5, > since I was considering using FreeBSD on our server (amd64) instead of > Linux. I made my way to Sun's java page, and then to the newest Java2 > Enterprise Edition 1.4 release. Yet no FreeBSD Java? Sun have never released any VM for FreeBSD. The linux one will probably work out of the box under the Linuxulator. > "This release of the J2EE 1.4 SDK and the Sun Java System Application > Server Platform Edition 8 is available for the following platforms: > Solaris 9 (SPARC and x86) > Sun Java Desktop System > Windows 2000 Advanced Server > Windows XP > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0" > That's odd, but Linux wasn't taken very seriously either for a long > time, so maybe it's under J2SE instead? Nope. Windows, Linux (x86), > Linux (amd64), Solaris (SPARC), and Solaris (x86). The same for 1.4 sdk > too. WTF, Right? Now I found: > > http://www.freebsd.org/java/ > > This I'm guessing is not the J2EE that you read about in Sun's Java > books, but J2SE. So now I'm approaching my question. Will there ever be > plans to port J2EE to FreeBSD running as a server? J2EE is just a buttload of jarfiles, effectively. Install jboss from ports and you have all the j2ee stuff you could ever want^W need^W , uh, put up with. -- When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. - Winston Churchill, On formal declarations of war Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
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