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Native Java JDK 1.3.1 Support For FreeBSD
ap writes "Justin T. Gibbs, of the FreeBSD Foundation, announced today the availability of a native binary release of the Java JDK 1.3.1 for FreeBSD. He also mentioned that more attention will now be focused on providing a release of the 1.4.x JDK. Such developments should allow for FreeBSD to be better suited for enterprise uses."
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the net using how many bsd tcp stacks?
Travelling through how many bsd firewalls?
Make jokes, linux boy. We're too busy coding
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will once agains "SCO" over to the kernel tree.
PS. -- To Moderators calling this a flame:
WTF was the original post? Not a flame?
Show some common sense.
... can process Java code that's not a bit slower than native Java on Windows.
... They can just stick with mod_perl or WebWare for Python or PHP or some other truly open source technology that isn't controlled by forty-thousand corporations all with an invested business interest in competing with Microsoft.
Orrr
I swear to God, every time I hear a phrase like "suited to the Enterprise" it's accompanied by a Java, Microsoft, or IBM article, all of which have a huge interest in convincing you that in order to sell a widget on the Internet you've absolutely, no-question, gotta have nineteen layers of logical infrastructure completely independent of each other otherwise your site's gonna go down and boy are you going to pay. In the meantime, sites like Yahoo run their e-commerce off of Lisp, PHP is their standardizing implementation language, Amazon is hiring Perl programmers, and Slashdot, a site which regularly DOSes other sites by virtue of it's power to link, runs on Perl.
But if you really want to be successful YOU NEED JAVA FOR THE "ENTERPRISE". Only with Java can you take half the time to express what takes twice as much typing to code. Or maybe by "Enterprise" what everyone really means is the USS Enterprise? Maybe that's why it could max out to warp 7.
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You could do before, but it was really ugly.
Installing Java required patches all over the place, and the ports system of compiling from code meant that trying to set up a server with Java (like Tomcat or Resin) would pull down a ton of X related UI stuff that you'd have to clean up afterwards.
On top of that, there were some stability issues because of the differences in threading models and wotnot.
As far as I know Windows have had native support for Java for ages. Actually since Microsoft and Sun signed an agreement about this back in 1997 that deals with this issue. So the fact that FreeBSD got this is fine but not exactly revolutionary.
Agreed! I'd mod parent up, but I've already posted to this thread. I've been working in an environment that includes a perl application using mod_per+apache, mysql, and a java app server. The perl app is 3rd party and is generally considered well put together. Deploying the perl app and apache is always a nightmare, recently spent hours tracking down a bug in a CPAN module. (at least they proved test cases so you can see the modules fail before they install) Automating the deployment is very difficult, obviously the developers expect you to spend hours changing hard coded paths in lines of source code and config files every time you want to deploy it. Deploying the Java app server and web app is never a problem, it usually takes about 2 minutes and can easily be automated using Ant.
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Yeah. As a serious java developer, I would have to agree. Its a shame because I also enjoy the bsd operating system.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.