Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:11:09 -0800 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General thoughts on java@freebsd-8/amd64 Message-ID: <20091217051109.GA68713@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <200912161656.07886.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> References: <200912161656.07886.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:56:07PM +0200, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > Hello, (sorry for having missed some of the latest developments in > FreeBSD-Java in the last couple of years). > The last few days, i have been deploying a new machine (AMD Phenom(tm) > II X4 965 Processor) with FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, as my main (next) > development platform. > I noticed that > - diablo-jdk1.6.0/amd64 is not precompiled for FreeBSD 8.0, (but for > FreeBSD 7.0) shouldn't there be one? I would say at this point that there is unlikely to be one unless someone donates a substantial amount of money to the Foundation. The Diablo releases are pretty expensive. You can run the one for 7.0 with compat7x installed, with some limitations. > - there is openjdk16, which says that it will supercede jdk16 in the > future, but the maintainer is not Greg Lewis, > what is Greg's involvement/relationship with this? Brian Gardner did the porting work on openjdk6. IIRC he did at least reference the other ports when doing that. > - there is no openjdk17 port, it is expected to be available in the future? Yes. OpenJDK7 is already ported, there just isn't a formal port of it yet. It's still a pretty fast moving target. I'd also like to see a solution for the bootstrap problem before it's created. > - javawrapper does not behave like it used to. Now it is basically > relying on /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.java.mk It's used bsd.java.mk (if its available) for a long time. It will fall back on its own internal logic if its not. > Anyway, I installed diablo-jdk1.6.0 (for FreeBSD 7.0) from ports, > and openjdk6 from ports, > haven't installed any real app to do performance testing. > Has anyone done any comparisons? > > Anyway, I would like to give Greg, the FreeBSD Foundation, and all > others which contrubuted many many thanks for providing java to FreeBSD > all those years. You're welcome! -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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