General thoughts on java@freebsd-8/amd64

[Achilleas Mantzios]

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?
- 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?
- there is no openjdk17 port, it is expected to be available in the future?
- javawrapper does not behave like it used to. Now it is basically relying on /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.java.mk

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.

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Achilleas Mantzios