From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 18:19:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45310106564A for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:19:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D078FC14 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk7 with SMTP id 7so1959831gxk.13 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:19:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cJAtujNI4Qs+bj83Y39KriWJ5Cs7VNkDRrymCOoq12c=; b=PYc3GHlAkvNKqZfcQo2Fl1b1O6kjWrf7ntxb85c7bF9r6mwHcZRgNxcJZtZYXajrTd PkLtQCi6AIvoEwM5XMvvXWBr4jDE5K1HoqZdBIPFlwoHG8jsIM/hGr47L21yPhNbMpVG trEux4cami2VX4aFJ2XQQz2+Yf2gOBPOyLwUA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=P4GIXSYtBmUVPPWT8uyudSvLALtCH/VKMUtPuWr4X8EThs9H9MSdXIB92fU41oYF5w VIBOqcL4CGA2msCXq5ENzJ9ykwSYSTveQ1oZ8hrh8dxTzWEKxUIzG24wK0MUucyDr0EO Fq4cClMOK6/0/qXq8/lb/eLO5YGtTKts0aARU= Received: by 10.101.184.33 with SMTP id l33mr1523791anp.120.1299521993131; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:19:53 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.104.16 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:19:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: n j Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:19:33 +0100 Message-ID: To: Nerius Landys Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Rodrigo Freitas , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD 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: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:19:54 -0000 > Java works very well for me under FreeBSD; I have not had a single > problem with Java on FreeBSD. > To install java, you can either install a pre-compiled JDK (called > diablo-jdk) or compile all the JDK sources from scratch using the > ports system. =A0If you compile yourself from ports, you can choose > either JDK 1.5 or JDK 1.6 (there may even be newer and older JDK > versions that work fine). =A0I'm running JDK 1.5 compiled from source on > both my servers, and have had no problems in my Java applications. > The dependencies list for 1.6 is a bit more involved, but the > compile/install process is so automated that you won't be bothered > with the amount of work it takes to install a JDK. > > So, in a nutshell, Java is very well supported under FreeBSD and you > should consider this to be a non-issue. IMHO, building Java on FreeBSD is a pain. Don't get me wrong, people working on FreeBSD Java project are doing a *great* job, but it was so much easier to just download the packages from FreeBSD Foundation thanks to the deal with Sun. I don't know what's the status of that deal right now, but there are no packages for 8-RELEASE and the packages themselves weren't updated in a long while, so I guess the deal's off. I'm running Java on FreeBSD right now, but I must say I'd probably stick to Linux nowadays if I had any say, at least until there comes a day when I'll be able to "pkg_add -r openjdk7". --=20 Nino