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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 19:10:09 +0200
From:      Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>
To:        Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        Cliff Rowley <cliff@olive.co.uk>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Query...
Message-ID:  <20000606191009.B62393@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200006061458.AAA46359@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au>; from glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:28:56AM %2B0930
References:  <393CF476.1A0A98D8@olive.co.uk> <200006061458.AAA46359@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au>

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Hi Cliff && all,

> > If there are any dire issues that people are aware of aside from those
> > fixed in the current patch set, please let me know so that I can be
> > prepared when I have to write and chair a report for my employer.

Hmm, I'm having trouble when running Orion (a J2EE application server).
It seems to `hang' when deploying .ear files. I don't know in what
category this problem would fall, but it keeps me from completely
switching from the Blackdown 1.2.2 rc4 to the native FreeBSD JDK.

A problem that should be solved in patchset 9 is that Ant can not delete
directories.

I find that AWT applications are sometimes very slow. The Forte 1.0 CE
installer (InstallShield) is *very* slow. It takes ~ 10 seconds to draw
the first window.

So on one hand the native JDK is not very usable IMHO, but the Linux JDK
is in my experience very stable on both 3.4-STABLE and on 4.0-STABLE. So
I believe you can make the switch to the FreeBSD operating system, but I
recommend you use the Linux JDK for now (in the ports tree).

* Orion
  http://www.orionserver.com/
* Ant
  http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/
* Forte
  http://www.sun.com/forte/

Ernst



It appears Greg Lewis wrote:
> Cliff Rowley wrote:
> > We need to run our custom written Java software on it, and need to be
> > able to run Servlets / JSP.  Our systems are high end systems, and
> > although it's probably not good to run them using a (what I guess you
> > could call) beta JVM, but the software is already proven to be reliable
> > in this case, and merely needs patching to fit our beloved operating
> > system.
> 
> I'm not personally running any sort of servlets, but the reports I've seen
> on the list of using patchset 8 for this are favourable.
> 
> > If there are any dire issues that people are aware of aside from those
> > fixed in the current patch set, please let me know so that I can be
> > prepared when I have to write and chair a report for my employer.
> 
> Hmmm, I can't think of any issues which are in the dire category, but there
> are certainly some open bugs.  There are also some fixed bugs which aren't
> in the current patchset (external processes, deleting empty directories).
> 
> >From what it sounds like you're doing, you'll probably be fine.  But as
> with all software in this stage of its life, give it a thorough test before
> committing yourself to it :).
> 
> -- 
> Greg Lewis 				glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au
> Computing Officer			+61 8 8303 5083
> Teletraffic Research Centre
> 
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