Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:13:09 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: Massimo Lusetti <mlusetti@gmail.com>, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General thoughts on java@freebsd-8/amd64 Message-ID: <4B2BE255.4000307@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20091218070651.GA84172@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <200912161656.07886.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> <20091217051109.GA68713@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <a6647e120912170047pf021efbqeaccde3ebdb37926@mail.gmail.com> <20091218070651.GA84172@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Greg Lewis wrote: > 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. > Really? Greg, I'm runnning the port labelled "jkd16", and with that as a base, I've been running eclipse with great success, but I know I'm going to *have* to upgrade sometime. Could you please tell me what's the relationship between the jdk16 port and openjdk? I mean, is one of those in a somewhat parental relationship with the other? Are they related? Will my experience with jdk16 have a good chance of being just as good with openjdk6? I hope I'm not stupid enough to ask you to "guarantee" that, but with everything else being equal, are my chances good of this?
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