From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 19:27:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B6E16A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:27:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF2543D45 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:27:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 95EE456428; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:27:22 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:27:22 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: J French Message-ID: <20050915192722.GA41002@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <35b7725f050914155826f5fa80@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <35b7725f050914155826f5fa80@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.5 on Freebsd - Best Method? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:27:24 -0000 On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:58:11PM -0500, J French wrote: > I need to install JBoss for some development and want to use FreeBSD but the > Java binary issue concerns me. Is the patchset at > http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html robust enough for > production? The JDK1.5 patchset is marked as alpha quality only. There is another patchset coming out soon, perhaps in the next month or so; but testing is still going on. >How about using the java linux binary in linux compatibility > mode? This is definitely sub-par. Java under the Linuxalator just works enough to boot strap the native JDK. Wouldn't recommend it for production usage. >Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I don't want to have to go to > linux for production. More to the point, how are people using JBoss in > production on FreeBSD? With the native JDK1.4.2. Its been around long enough to be considered producation capable. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.