From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 1 21:57:18 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 A2D1E106564A for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 21:57:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave-freebsd@pooserville.com) Received: from smtp.pooserville.com (mail.pooserville.com [69.26.223.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B74E8FC08 for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 21:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mail.pooserville.com) by smtp.pooserville.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id LKJCG6-0001KJ-L7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 16:16:54 -0500 Received: from [24.27.124.167] (account dave-sa@pooserville.com HELO [192.168.74.51]) by mail.pooserville.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 943800 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 16:16:54 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.10.0.110310 Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 16:16:49 -0500 From: Dave Pooser To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Ongoing JRE support in FreeBSD? Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Ongoing JRE support in 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: Sun, 01 May 2011 21:57:18 -0000 I'm planning on setting up a machine to run a Java server app, and the OS candidates are CentOS or FreeBSD. I'd prefer FreeBSD, for reasons mostly involving ZFS and DTrace, but when I go to http://www.freebsd.org/java I notice that the binaries are certified with 6.x/7.x and the last entry in "Newsflash" is posted July 10 of 2010. This does not, on the surface, appear to be a vibrant and active project. That said, I see there are packages in the 8.2 RELEASE tree, so there's clearly some kind of work going on. I guess my question is, can I expect FreeBSD to be a solid platform for Java deployment going forward, or am I better off taking the road more traveled and deploying on Linux? -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.... It's the only way to make progress." -- Terry Pratchett, _The Truth_