why native jdk?

[Nicolas Gieczewski]

Just like Sheldon said, the native JDK _is_ more stable than the Linux one. Of course, you may not notice any differences during your particular usage. I run a rather complex console multi-threaded application that used to crash the Linux JDK, whereas the native JDK never had any problems with it. Furthermore, I believe I had to turn /dev/random into a link to /dev/urandom for SSL handshaking to work on the Linux SDK.

Cheers,

Nicolas Gieczewski
Nix Software Solutions
http://www.nixsoftware.com/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jozef Babjak" <babjak at neuron.tuke.sk>
To: <freebsd-java at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 09:47
Subject: why native jdk?


Hi, 

can you explain me (or redirect me to appropriate documentation) what 
are advantages of building native jdk under FreeBSD (-stable) instead 
of the using linux-jdk under linux compatibility mode?

Thank you.

Jozef.