From owner-freebsd-java Mon Dec 16 14:50:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4353437B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from c0mailgw08.prontomail.com (mailgw.prontomail.com [207.183.238.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBB643EDE for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:50:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DerekYoung@easy.com) Received: from c0web107 (207.183.238.63) by c0mailgw08.prontomail.com (NPlex 6.0.045) id 3DFE28F50000022D for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:34:35 -0800 X-Version: easygroup 6.3.3.2329.0 X-SenderIP: 63.156.88.68 X-SenderID: 24844284 From: "Derek Young" Message-Id: <13FF8EDA65AD73F4E9656AFABD4D4FEF@DerekYoung.easy.com> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:33:50 -0600 X-Priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Umm... Java... X-Mailer: Web Based Pronto Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You know... I appreciate all the great work put into porting jdks over to FreeBSD. I ususally find myself using the latest release from sun under linux emulation though... A small suggestion might be this, perhaps the fastest way to keep FreeBSD current with the latest releases of Java might be for the linux emulation to be worked on to the point to where it can run the linux jdk's perfectly. Complex java apps like IDEA crash the hell out of jdk1.4_01 :) But if the linux emulation was perfect, then everytime sun released a new JDK we could use in on FreeBSD :) Plus, considering what a complex program a JDK is... it will point out lots of bugs in Linux emulation. One funny aspect is how using the linux jdk, it properly(depending on who you ask) uses threads with rfork, so you get multiple processes, that is kind of cool. easy.com Sent by Mail at easy.com, an easyGroup company. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message