From owner-freebsd-java Sat Mar 27 10:12:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A01A14FCE for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 10:12:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08912; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 10:10:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199903271810.KAA08912@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Diekhans Cc: sprice@hiwaay.net, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@lojic.com, dwilde1@thuntek.net Subject: Re: A BSD-licensed JIT (was Re: Development Projects) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Mar 1999 10:01:04 PST." <199903271801.KAA10685@osprey.grizzly.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 10:10:22 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am focusing on Electric Fire which is covered by the Netscape Public License if anyone is interested see: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ef The latest version compiles on FreeBSD with no hazzle . Electric Fire uses standard compiler technology so it is really more like a compiler rather than a JIT. For instance, its register allocator uses a Chaitin-Briggs style register allocator. Kaffe is not a bad way to go for developing server side applications like servlets specially due to its relatively small memory foot print which I am sure that Godmar can elaborate on 8) Cheers, Amancio > ># What is the importance of getting a JIT under a BSD-license? > > > >This is a flamebait question intended to draw me into yet another > >licensing war, but I'll bite long enough to say this. > > No it is not! Take the question at face value. I do a lot of server-side Java > development and see FreeBSD as an excellent platform for such applications > once the JVM can compete with the Solaris JVM. > > I am no fan of the GPL and all open source software I have release is under a > BSD-style license. > > Given that FreeBSD is fairly dependent on GPL-ed code anyway (e.g. gcc) and > the way a JIT is licensed has no impact (that I can see) on its use, it > doesn't seem near as important as just having a really solid java environment. > > >Doesn't matter which one is the best right now. Find me one > >that isn't GPL'd and I would gladly pick it up and help extend > >it. > > Ok, that answered the question. Good luck with your effort. > > Mark > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message