tomcat

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:38:42PM -0400, Rail mail wrote:
> there doesn't seem to be a "linux-jdk13" in the ports
> 
> I just have a fresh install of 5.2.1 and 5.1

Ummm... I wouldn't use FreeBSD 5.1 on any new installs.  That was an
unstable developer preview release that has long since been
superceeded.  Stick with 5.2.1 for now, and plan on upgrading to
5.3-STABLE sometime after it comes out in October.  
 
> all the tutorials I find seem to want linux-jdk13
> 
> I only see things like
> 
> linux-sun-jdk13
> linux-ibm-jdk13
> linux-blackdown-jdk13
> 
> any help would be much appreciated

Any of those three ports should work for you.  Unless you've got a
good reason not to, I'd choose linux-sun-jdk13 out of those.
Actually, if I was going to use a Linux JDK, I'd tend to choose
java/linux-sun-jdk14 nowadays, as that's the current stable release
version of Java.

However, on FreeBSD, you are generally better off using a native JDK.
With 5.x, that really boils down to installing java/jdk14 from source.
It's a monumental pain in the bottom, having to jump through all of
the hoops that SDSL forces you to just to download the sources, and
then the actual compilation step is a bit monumental as well, but in
the end it's all worth it because of the improved stability and speed
of native java 1.4.x over other JDKs.




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