From owner-freebsd-java Sun Mar 14 19:13:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E6F150C5 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:13:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA31960; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:12:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:12:44 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Brian Adkins Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java support In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990314213618.00aa8450@mailbox.iwaynet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [redirected to -java] On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Brian Adkins wrote: # Hello, # can you tell me how the FreeBSD organization feels about Java? In other # words, are you committed to supporting it on FreeBSD now and in the future? Well, I can't speak for the project, but I can speak for myself. I use Java quite a bit at my job and I intend to make sure that it works on FreeBSD. I just finished an ELF port of JDK 1.1.7 (we already have an a.out version) and am currently working on a port of JDK 1.2. The latter is going pretty slow right now, but at least I've made it over the ELF bump so it is just a matter of time. # I ask this for two reasons: # # 1) I'm evaluating operating systems to be used to host Java server # applications, and I'm looking for an alternative to NT and Solaris - both # of which currently have excellent Java support. The beauty of Java is that I do Java development seven days a week and don't use either of the platforms you mention above except to do regression tests before a release. I do *all* my development work in FreeBSD. :) # 2) I would think that a committment to Java would be *very* important to # the free UNIX organizations. Java is an incredible language to develop in # and does offer an alternative to the Wintel monopoly. You have millions of # Java programmers and many of them have been attracted to the cross-platform # capabilities of Java and are dying for a deployment platform other than NT. # # Personally I think a free OS combined with Java is an incredible # combination; however, when I read things like "this might work for you, or # it might not" on the Java port page, it makes me not want to consider # FreeBSD as a host for my server even though everything else about FreeBSD # gets me excited. Can you site some specific examples of what's troubling you. I can try it on one of about a dozen FreeBSD boxes at work to see if it indeed works. # By the way, we're not developing an internal application, we have a # vertical market app that in many cases will be installed as a complete # system (hardware, OS, app etc.). I would really like to be able to # recommend FreeBSD as the OS of choice for the turnkey systems. Great! # thanks, # # Brian Adkins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message