Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:06:51 -0800 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Massimo Lusetti <mlusetti@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General thoughts on java@freebsd-8/amd64 Message-ID: <20091218070651.GA84172@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <a6647e120912170047pf021efbqeaccde3ebdb37926@mail.gmail.com> References: <200912161656.07886.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> <20091217051109.GA68713@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <a6647e120912170047pf021efbqeaccde3ebdb37926@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:47:55AM +0100, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> wrote: > > > I would say at this point that there is unlikely to be one unless someone > > donates a substantial amount of money to the Foundation. ?The Diablo > > releases are pretty expensive. ?You can run the one for 7.0 with compat7x > > installed, with some limitations. > > Would you mind to elaborate a little more about limitations you're > talking about? If you're trying to use an application that dynamically instantiates a JVM itself or uses its own JNI library rather than a pure Java application then you're likely to have trouble since you're mixing and matching code from different versions of the operating system. > What is your thinking about the best option to run java6 on FreeBSD > 8 right now? openjdk6. It needs an update to b17 though. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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