Distros standardizing Java VMs

Submitted by Amanda McPherson on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 01:08.
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Would this be a good idea? How is this going to work?

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re:: Distros Standardizing Java VMs
Submitted by ramkrsna on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 12:06.

I have been thinking about this a longtime. Java has been one of the primary programming language for enterprise applications in Linux. Although, I'm not a great fan of Java. AFAIK,  None of the Distros officially do certify Java applications. The ISV or the Vendor usually self certifies their application on the distribution, with the JVM of their choice.  

Standardizing Java VM would mean, Certifying the underlying VM on Upstream Enterprise Distributions like RHEL, Suse and Ubuntu.  Task would mean to certify/standardize all these JVM's and then certifying applications on the respective JVM. The popular ones being the following ::

  • Sun JVM
  • IBM JVM
  • BEA JVM

IcedTea (Hotspot, the VM ) is very promising. It also have passed Sun's rigorous TCK testing on x86 and x86_64 , viz compatible Java 6 implementation.  But it would actually take some time and courage for ISV developer to consider it as a serious platform for development but ISV adopting always takes sometime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Submitted by regman on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 15:45.

I'm interested as well and am curious as to how this would work?

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