[Fwd: JDK2 binary update]

[Zsolt Kuti]

Sziasztok!

A nyari langy'ba, hadd kuldjek egy kis szemelvenyt a java
listarol. Tobbsegetek vszinuleg nem hasznal javat FBSD-n, de azert
nem art tudni masok gondjarol sem, ami elobb vagy utobb mindenkie
lehet.

Zsolt


Peter Mutsaers wrote:
> 
> John Daniels wrote:
> 
> >
> > It's only a matter of time before a major vendor supports a next
> > generation programming language on FreeBSD.  The longer that it takes
> > Sun to welcome FreeBSD into the Java community, the less I care if that
> > is Sun or MS.
> >
> 
> Indeed, Suns lack of support is inexcusable, is damaging to Java or to
> FreeBSD, depending on your perspective.
> 
> In "my world", large applications for banks, virtually everything is
> being rewritten or newly implemented using
> - java
> - RDBMS (usually Oracle or DB2 on mainframe)
> - corba to glue it together
> 
> The operating system more and more is only a platform to run java and database.
> 
> Other characteristics of the operating system are becoming irrelevant
> (such as filesystem, since everything is either stored in the DB or put
> on the mainframe via corba). Choice of platform only depends on:
> - does it run Java2 fast and reliably
> - does it run Oracle reliably
> 
> It hurts that FreeBSD no longer has a chance, even though as an OS it is
> good and superior to Linux. The only thing that counts is that Linux
> runs Java well, and FreeBSD does not.
> 
> The result is, by the way, that we see more and more NT instead of UNIX,
> because although it is crap, it runs Java well (then the database runs
> somewhere else).
> 
> Sun had better at least provide an excellent Java/Hotspot for most
> Unices; it is so annoying, almost all software is easily ported between
> all Unix variants, but the only piece of software that really matters
> these days (the JVM) is a sad exception.
> 
> Then they might consider to stop support on NT, or at least not provide
> the server-version of Hotspot, to prevent defects from UNIX to NT.
> 
> --
> Peter Mutsaers     |  Dübendorf    | UNIX - Live free or die
> peter at mutsaers.com |  Switzerland  | Running FreeBSD 4.3-stable
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