New to Java on FreeBSD.

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Dan Carroll <fbsd at dannysplace.net> wrote:
[...]
> It looks like the recommended way to go is to use openJDK on freebsd.
> Is it an efficient JRE?  Is it stable?  Are there binary packages available
> or are there licensing problems that prevent it?
> What about EJB and Servelet containers?  Is it possible to get something
> going under FreeBSD.

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.

Hope that helps.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>