Re: Java for OpenBSD

[Cedric Berger <cedric@berger.to>]

Hitri, Andreas wrote:

>Hi List!
>
>We are thinking about switching our web servers from Solaris to OpenBSD.
>For this we need java 1.4.
>
Java 1.4 only comes with hotspot, which makes use of Linux native
threading which is not emulated well enough to support that.

Java 1.3 also comes with the "classic" VM, which is much slower
than hotspot, but implement its own threading internally (like
OpenBSD userlevel thread) and therefore does not makes use
of the native threading system and work erfectly with OpenBSD.

If you need 1.4.1, you should take a look at FreeBSD porting effort,
they have some support for OpenBSD as well in there. At least, I think
it compiles under OpenBSD....

Lack of OpenBSD support is a major issue for many ppl, so if you have
string C and threading programming skills and a lot of time available,
help in that area would be much appreciated....
Cedric