Re: java

[Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org>]

With IBM JDK, don't forget:

export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6

see http://www.livejournal.com/users/avdyk/6508.html?nc=6

Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:39:09 -0400, 
Derrik Pates <dpates@dsdk12.net> wrote: 

> Greg Hamilton wrote:
>> IBM distribute a free-as-in-beer binary only Java package which
>> includes the SDK and JVM. I believe it has passed the Sun compliance
>> tests. I don't have a download address handy but you should be able to
>> find by searching their website. The packages are labeled p-series
>> (PPC) and i-series (Intel). I use it on a G3 iBook running Debian.
>
> Actually, iSeries and pSeries are both POWER-based systems - pSeries is
> what's been known previously as RS6000; iSeries is what's previously
> been known as AS400 (where you can run partitioned virtual machines on
> top of a hypervisor). Neither are x86 based - xSeries is IBM's family of
> Intel-based server systems.
>
>> Unfortunately there's no browser plugin and I recall there's an
>> environment variable which must be set to specify the target processor
>> if you're not using a G4 or the runtime will fail trying to execute
>> illegal instructions.
>
> I ran into that on my Pismo (not a G4, mind you) with an earlier
> version, but to my knowledge IBM fixed that issue. I've run jBuilder on
> top of it (with a couple class packs stolen from a Sun 1.4.2 JDK for
> x86), and it works as fine as Java software ever does.
>
> -- 
> Derrik Pates
> dpates@dsdk12.net
>
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