Re: java for openbsd?

[David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:35:25AM +0100, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
> I've installed the O'Reilly Bookshelf as html on my LAN-Server.
> The bookshelf uses an java-program for searching the contents of
> the books. The documentation suggests using the jre (1.1.6).
> Since there is no native openbsd jre I wonder what would be the
> best way to get java working. I considered installing the linux
> jre but I thought that the emulation could be a but too much
> overhead.
> 
> On a side note: Many XSLT parsers use Java too. How do you people
> run them?

Binary emulation on openbsd has little to no overhead since it's simply
a parallel set of system calls.  I'd run the FreeBSD java runtime in
the ports tree though.

I'm currently playing with the Kaffe compiler and runtime, also found
in ports.

cd /usr/ports && make search key=java | $PAGER

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