[TriLUG] Re: Managed languages (was .NET development on Linux)

David A. Cafaro dac at trilug.org
Thu Jun 17 12:57:25 EDT 2004


I've actually had the experience that Java apps are just as stable for
me under Linux as they are Windows.  Now that's not to say that I
haven't run some very unstable Java apps (equally unstable on Linux and
Windows), but generally most newer Java apps I've played with (A
bittorent app, and a SQL admin interface) both behaved very well under
Linux as well as Windows, and ran reasonably quickly (not as fast as
something native, but not slow enough to make me thing it's running
slow).  Also as far as getting SDK/JVMs installed and supporting well,
the only period of time where I ran into problems was back with the
change over from JVM compiled with gcc 2.X to 3.x.  There was a lot of
mix ups and compatibility problems on all sides around then.  Since then
and in the last year and a half especially, it's been very easy for me
getting Java apps to be happy, web browsers to work, and
cross-platforming to work.  I have one SDK on my workstations/laptop
(Sun in this case) and it runs every Java app I've tried fine.  On the
servers (RHAS 3) I use the included IBM JDK and have no problem
deploying my Java apps written against Sun or Blackdown JDK onto the IBM
JDK/JVM.


On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 10:26, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
> 
> I'm not the one who originally wrote it, but I will stab at Java from a 
> different angle.  Anyone else notice that Java apps just seem to be more 
> fragile, especially under linux?  Environment must be just right, SDK 
> version must be just right, and if your SDK isn't the same version as the 
> guy developing it app does strange and (not so) wonderful things.  So you 
> end up with three or four SDK's installed, starting up each of your java 
> apps with a different $JAVA_HOME just to get it to work somewhat-reliably.
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David A. Cafaro
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