java

[Paul Thomas]

On 19/12/2003 11:33 Alan Dunkley wrote:
> On Friday 19 Dec 2003 5:38 am, Ted wrote:
> > Anyone tell me if there are any major differences between Blackdown
> > and Sun java and if so which is preferable?
> 
> In my experiemce this is not much between them.  I tend to favour the
> "official" sun version because it leads and others follow.  Blackdown
> lags
> Sun by a minor release or so, viz Sun offers 1.4.2 whereas Blackdown
> offer
> 1.4.1  Unless you need the absolute new features that Sun offer, its down
> to
> personal choce, so just flip a coin. :-)

There are also issues of the NPTL backport into the FC kernel. The latest 
Sun JVM works fine. You'll need to check which Blackdown JVM (if any) is 
patched for NPTL if yoy want to run Blackdown/FC.

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