I have been working on a project since 1998 that implementes a "Thick" Java client and uses a J2EE (WebLogic) server implementation on Solaris. As for the client you can check it out for yourself at http://sirtf.caltech.edu/SSC/propkit/spot/ You can see from the download page that the client runs on 3 platforms (Mac will be available as soon as OS X gets its act together) and does an excellent job of it. As for the server running on Solaris, BEA spent time optimizing the JVM to improve its performance on Solaris. An interesting note: The client JVM is 1.4 and the server JVM is 1.3.1 (with WebLogic mods) and there is a shared code base between the two. We compile all of the code with 1.4 and run it on Solaris with 1.3.1 and have not seen any problems with execution or client/server communication.
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I have been working on a project since 1998 that implementes a "Thick" Java client and uses a J2EE (WebLogic) server implementation on Solaris. As for the client you can check it out for yourself at http://sirtf.caltech.edu/SSC/propkit/spot/
You can see from the download page that the client runs on 3 platforms (Mac will be available as soon as OS X gets its act together) and does an excellent job of it. As for the server running on Solaris, BEA spent time optimizing the JVM to improve its performance on Solaris. An interesting note: The client JVM is 1.4 and the server JVM is 1.3.1 (with WebLogic mods) and there is a shared code base between the two. We compile all of the code with 1.4 and run it on Solaris with 1.3.1 and have not seen any problems with execution or client/server communication.