2013/5/17 Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org>
> For JAF specifically I think we are safe, I checked that GCJ provided an
> implementation [1]. I haven't compared the implementation class by class
> but it seems quite complete. I verified that libgnumail-java could build
> on kfreebsd without libgnujaf-java.
>
> On the other hand I tried to remove libmx4j-java from libmina2-java this
> afternoon and I had to revert the change. MX4J provides an
> implementation of javax.management which was integrated to Java 5. That
> makes a good candidate for removal. But GNU Classpath provides only a
> very limited implementation of this package, and Mina failed to compile
> on kfreebsd.
>
I've many more examples of issues like this... Many Java libraries /
programs depends on specific *internal behavior* of JDK classes or JVM
runtime which are obviously not documented.
> > What do others team's members thinks of this ?
>
> I just dream we could have OpenJDK everywhere so we can move on. I
> really regret being unable to help in this area.
I was working on kfreebsd-{amd64,i386} porting last year. I lack free time
right now, but Guido Günther is working on it.
IMHO, running Java on arch other than i386/amd64/arm (and kfreebsd-*
flavor) is a bit challenging journey...
Regards,
--
Damien
