From owner-freebsd-java Fri May 25 3:17:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BED37B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 03:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 25 May 2001 11:17:07 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 153EdD-0005rU-00; Fri, 25 May 2001 11:15:43 +0100 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:15:43 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: 'FreeBSD Java mailing list' Subject: Re: Who used jdk 1.1.8 and linux 1.2.2? In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9C0E@l04.research.kpn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 25 May 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear All, > > We are collecting a tremendous number of JDK's. We have 1.1.8, 1.2.2 (2x), > 1.3.0. As soon as someone sits down to write the Makefiles for them, 1.3.1 > and 1.4 should be added to this list. > > I appreciate that 1.1.8 is genuinely useful for applet development, and also > our only official native port. I don't think it's time to pull the plug on > it. Still I'd like to know how widely it's used. > > The usefulness of Linux JDK 1.2.2 is less obvious. Apart from "I haven't had > time", what are your reasons not to switch to 1.3? Are there stability > issues that keep you from moving to 1.3? 1. (kind of spurious) working on a project with that JVM specified as the implementation platform. 2. (more relevant) using BerkeleyDB support; I've got some C stuff and some Java that uses it and I didn't want to have to build or maintain a Linux version of the libraries. So I'd like to see a native port. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Talk is cheap: free, as in beer. As in Real Ale, not that Budweiser rubbish. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message