From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 10:34:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9A116A513 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:34:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gollum.cambrium.nl (mx1.cambrium.nl [217.19.16.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E019B43D48 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:34:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j.verschoor@nefli.nl) Received: (qmail 5273 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2005 10:34:34 -0000 Received: from 217-19-20-68.dsl.cambrium.nl (HELO ?192.168.1.142?) (217.19.20.68) by gollum.cambrium.nl with SMTP; 10 Jan 2005 10:34:34 -0000 Message-ID: <41E25A39.9040506@nefli.nl> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:34:33 +0100 From: Joris Verschoor Organization: Nefli B.V. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Morten Liebach References: <41DE4504.5040300@ebs.gr> <2569.216.220.59.169.1105114005.squirrel@216.220.59.169> <41E247F2.2070605@nefli.nl> <20050110102730.GA31285@mongers.org> In-Reply-To: <20050110102730.GA31285@mongers.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:34:36 -0000 Morten Liebach wrote: >On 2005-01-10 10:16:34 +0100, Joris Verschoor wrote: > > >>Ean Kingston wrote: >> >> >> >>>I have to agree with Achilleus on all his points. >>> >>>The company I work for was making a similar decision a couple of years ago >>>and not having a binary distribution of Java took FreeBSD right out of the >>>running. >>> >>>Management takes the stance that if they can't get a binary for production >>>use then the product is not sufficiently supported. >>> >>>So, I run SUN systems at work now. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>On some servers, we'd like to run FreeBSD, but instead we run linux, >>because we need good java support... I hope some day sun will wake up. >> >> > >Here at work we use FreeBSD 4.x servers running Java and tomcat, it is >not a problem at all, it just works. > >We run 8 webservers and about the same number of backend servers like >that. We only use Linux for our load balancers. > >Maybe there's specific things in your apps that won't work, I don't >know, but my experience is that there's no reason not to use FreeBSD for >running Java apps, unless you need bleeding edge stuff perhaps. > > We've done some tests, and everything works, but the build process takes ages and updates are slow. + 5.0 is not ready, but we won't be doing 5.0 stuff yet, although we'd love to use generics etc. >Have a nice day > Morten > > >