New to Java on FreeBSD.

[Danny Carroll]

Quoting Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>:
> OpenJDK is the only JVM that's getting any real love under FreeBSD at
> the moment. It's pretty stable, no slower than jdk16, and pretty much
> works as exepcted for web-app development. There are packages
> available off the package-sites, and the licence is GPLv2.
>
> However, Swing support is "close-but-not-quite". You can trigger race
> conditions with some apps (eg: Netbeans, and apps with Netbeans base,
> like iReports); but in most cases it works. If you're willing to live
> with that you're good to go with OpenJDK.

Thanks for the reply.

I see that JBoss is in the ports collection (with multiple versions)

Is it also possible to install JBoss and use this JVM?
If so, can it be done without the hassle of installing the other JDK first?

What are peoples experience with JBoss under FreeBSD?

-D