From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 14:46:16 2005 Return-Path: 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 CF96816A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:46:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk (smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2986B43D6D for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:46:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j2DEkANU023295 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:46:11 GMT Message-ID: <4234537A.2000907@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:51:38 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <2310080683.20050313142102@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <2310080683.20050313142102@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CIS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@cis.strath.ac.uk for more information X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CIS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-4.9, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-CIS-MailScanner-From: chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Java X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:46:16 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Rhys Campbell writes: > > >>I have an application written in Java that I am thinking about deploying on >>FreeBSD. I am considering FreeBSD because of its reputation for stability >>and performance. The only concern I have is the port of Java on this system. >>I am a newcomer to FreeBSD (a few days in fact) so I just wanted to know >>what is the stability / reliability of the Java implementation? Are there >>many known problems etc. > > > Why not just write it in C or some other compiled language, and > eliminate the variable of a Java interpreter (while improving > performance greatly to boot)? > This is a pretty silly comment. If he has written it in Java then porting it to C is probably not going to be trivial. On the performance side, Java's performance is actually pretty good. This is an article on Java vs various other languages. It is a 2003 article so I would imagine things are even better nowadays. http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html Chris