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Linux JVMs Running Under BSD?

Posted by Cliff on from the can-you-do-that dept.

Mock asks: "I work for a web services company, and so part of our business process involves setting up web servers for our customers that include a JVM for running our software. Although I've found FreeBSD to be rock-solid for server applications and the quickest to fix security issues, the JVM support has been lagging behind other systems, for some time now. I would like to know if it is wise, or even possible, to run the Linux JVM under BSD? Are there other alternatives I'd be better off considering (besides using a different operating system)?"

2 of 41 comments (clear)

  1. Re:You could use? by aminorex · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Java is open source too. Kaffe is Open Source (tm),
    and the JDK has source freely available, so while it
    is not Open Source (tm), it is open source, but not
    Free Software (tm) -- just free software.

    That, and you can also use gcj. gcj doesn't do AWT
    or Swing yet, so use SWT for GUI stuff.

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    -I like my women like I like my tea: green-
  2. Re:It's called the ports tree. Tsarkon Reports by JumpSuit+Boy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok no need to be pissy. Of the native ones (I only use the linux ones to bootstrap compile the native)

    I have been using jdk131 for production app dev and web serving for about 2.5 years w/ no problems. The recent inclusion of the hotspot realy inproved performance in 1.3.

    I have started to use jdk14 on freebsd5-current for testing and it seems fine. I would not deploy with it yet it is a beta it still fails 20 out 2700 tests. It is worth noting that both the native and linux jdk14 really like running on freebsd5 and are not as happy on 4.X

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    Oh really?