From owner-freebsd-java Thu Feb 28 4:54:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7209137B417 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 04:54:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <1Z1F703N>; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:54:35 +0100 Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA3BF@l04.research.kpn.com> From: "Koster, K.J." To: 'j mckitrick' Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Ugrade from linux-jdk to native Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:54:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Dear Jm, > > | or why not use the linux-j2sdk.1.4 from sun i am using it > | on a 4.5 box with > | Tomcat 4.02 and its great and very easy to install. > > Good question. Is there any reason to use native jdk instead > of the new version of the linux jdk? > For most things it isn't. You'll need native for doing JNI stuff. Everything else works fine in the Linux JDK's. Of course, you need a native JDK to show off FreeBSD. :-) I think you'll need a native JDK for (currently under development) hotspot support. I'm a little vague on this. Kees Jan ===================================================== You can't have everything. Where would you put it? [Steven Wright] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message