General thoughts on java@freebsd-8/amd64

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:47:55AM +0100, Massimo Lusetti wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Would you mind to elaborate a little more about limitations you're
> talking about?

If you're trying to use an application that dynamically instantiates a JVM
itself or uses its own JNI library rather than a pure Java application then
you're likely to have trouble since you're mixing and matching code from
different versions of the operating system.

> What is your thinking about the best option to run java6 on FreeBSD
> 8 right now?

openjdk6.  It needs an update to b17 though.

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