From owner-freebsd-java Sun Jan 24 22:46:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27188 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:46:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27181 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:46:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA08372; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:46:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA04606; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:46:18 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:46:18 -0700 Message-Id: <199901250646.XAA04606@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Gene W. Homicki" Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TowerJ for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990124230700.J28999@spiders.com> References: <199901250143.RAA23403@bubba.whistle.com> <199901250153.RAA07328@rah.star-gate.com> <199901250221.TAA03659@mt.sri.com> <19990124230700.J28999@spiders.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > | Also, once we get a good working JDK1.2, JDK1.2.1 will be released. > | Someone should feed the patches back to sun. What about JIT support? > | What about relations with a JIT vendor? > +--- > > The Solaris/x86 JDK1.2 has a JIT - I don't suppose those sources are > available from Sun for porting? The JIT is the symantec JIT, and is Win32 specific. Solaris X86 does not use the symantec JIT. The Solaris JIT sources are not released. :( > | Sure it would, but have you approached them and asked for support? Have > | you offered to buy a license? As has been shown in the past, calls for > | 'talking to a vendor' have never been much use on getting software > | ported to FreeBSD. It takes motivated people willing to do it alone and > | doing more than send an email saying 'me too' to convince a vendor. > > I've started that process. How hard I push them will depend on our real > need - and other options that I'm looking into. Good deal! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message