Linux JVMs Running Under BSD?

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)?"

Comments

It's called the ports tree.

[JumpSuit Boy]

http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-blackdown-jdk 12/
http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-blackdow n-jdk 13/
http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-blackdow n-jdk 14/
http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-ibm-jdk1 3/
http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-ibm-jdk14 /
http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-sun-jdk12/
http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-sun-jdk13/
http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-sun-jdk14/

or you could just use the native ones
http://www.freshports.org/java/jdk12/
http: //www.freshports.org/java/jdk13/
http://www.fresh ports.org/java/jdk14/

That said I used it to run a small enhydra/xmlc java web app. In my last job and I performed well and with the recent (last six months) inclusion of the hotspot stuff it's much faster.

Re:You could use?

[aminorex]

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.