Re: java stuff (Re: final thoughts - bug tracking system)

[Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tomaž Borštnar wrote:
> Hiten Pandya wrote:
>
> > I am worried, that all BSD communities keep saying that Java is 
> > frightening and something very heavyweight.  Well, I have to disagree 
> > with that purely on the grounds of principle; just because we don't 
> > support JAVA properly does not mean we should call it the nasties.
>
>
> Yep, I wish BSDs would have better support for Java. Or at least via 
> linux emulation. linux jdk 1.5 dumps core (Bad system call) when trying 
> to run jboss with it. Native jdk 1.4 with jboss seems to be DoS-able - 
> ie. send lots of connections towards it and it will start taking all CPU 
> being in system part and not doing its java work and killing it is the 
> only solution.

I have not tried running Jboss, but tomcat, resin, eclipse, azureus, 
etc. all run fine in FreeBSD-5 with native jdk1.5.0. Personnally i have 
not seen great difference with Linux running the same programs on the 
same machine. Like you both i think that proper Java support on a system
which pretends to be a server system or an industrial system is an
absolute necessity, essentially because a large part of industry systems
are based on Java.
By the way, have you compiled your native jdk1.4.2 in a very clean
environment (no environment variables defined)? I have had nasties due 
to that.

> Tomaž