Subject: Re: Sun's Java 2 SDK/JRE 1.4.2_08 (64-bit for AMD64)
To: NetBSD, tech-pkg <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Smith <smithm@netapps.com.au>
List: port-amd64
Date: 07/22/2005 23:29:12
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:58:49 +0200
"Robert Cates" <robert@kormar.net> wrote:

> I'm about to install NetBSD/AMD64 2.0.2 and would like, actually need,
> to run Apache Tomcat 5.0.30.  For that I would like to use Sun's Java
> 2 SDK/JRE 1.4.2_08, but there does not seem to be an AMD64 port.  If I
> have to I would use the J2SE DK 5.0 Update 4 (jdk-1.5.0_04) for Linux
> on an AMD64 platform, but...

It sounds like you are going to have to jump through a few hoops to get
it to work. Perhaps you could consider porting your application to an
OSS java runtime. I have used kaffe and I found it surprisingly good,
but I wouldn't stop looking there.
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