Ongoing JRE support in FreeBSD?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Sun May 1 22:03:41 UTC 2011


On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Dave Pooser <dave-freebsd at pooserville.com>wrote:

> That said, I see there are packages in the 8.2 RELEASE tree, so there's
> clearly some kind of work going on. I guess my question is, can I expect
> FreeBSD to be a solid platform for Java deployment going forward, or am I
> better off taking the road more traveled and deploying on Linux?
>

Unless you're willing to use OpenJDK, Linux is better option.  The native
JDK runs fine under 8, but it's patchset is severely out of date.

OpenJDK has improved a lot and is a good substitute for me, but you may wish
to check into it's suitability for your use.

-- 
Adam Vande More


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