From owner-freebsd-java Mon Jan 29 14:35:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from dnvrpop4.dnvr.uswest.net (dnvrpop4.dnvr.uswest.net [206.196.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC37737B698 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28721 invoked by uid 0); 29 Jan 2001 22:35:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cthulhu.methodsystems.com) (63.227.49.196) by dnvrpop4.dnvr.uswest.net with SMTP; 29 Jan 2001 22:35:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (wolpert@localhost) by cthulhu.methodsystems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA55066 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:35:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wolpert@methodsystems.com) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:35:04 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: From: "Edward Wolpert" To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Java, FreeBSD and BSDi (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Carlos Amengual wrote: > - FreeBSD port is being JCK-tested, but it is not possible to disclose the > status of it. Yeah... it's now under black ops control. :-) > - BSDi already has a Java2 port (1.2.2) and apparently they have been > distributing it with BSD/OS 4.2 Any word if BSDi is starting 1.3 at this point? I knew about their jdk1.2.2 > I already have a native FreeBSD JDK 1.2.2 (it is easy to build using the > port) and I'm looking for time to test it, but serious use requires of course > passing JCK. Also, real bug detection cannot start until the port is widely > used, and this means a binary release. I've been using jdk1.2.2p10 on my production server since it was released. (p9 before that.) For the non-graphics work, my tests came out great. Now, I'm getting requests for jdk1.3 in production. (I'm not doing the linuxemulator at this point, and don't have plans for it.) I can hold off until start of second quarter, but it doesn't seem likely that 1.3 will be native to FreeBSD by then. I may be abit stuck... > A quite unpleasant situation. I blame Sun. They never should have left BSD for SYSV. (I'm one step away from a _rant_ here. :-) Virtually, Edward Wolpert wolpert@methodsystems.com | A6 FA 89 06 6A CC CE 9B http://www.methodsystems.com/ | 57 08 9F 99 AA 77 43 27 ------------------------------------------------------- Method Systems: Open source workflow management solutions To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message