Although GlassFish itself is based on Java, we do have some platform
specific utilities such as dynamic link libraries for security, cli,
etc. Also for certain OS, we have to use the JDK that comes with the OS.
For instance Mac and AIX have their own JDK. Compiling with those JDKs
is required for ensuring that a large and critical software such as GF
does not have problems on those platforms.
Hence the need for different platform specific jars.
hth
Shreedhar
glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Out of curiosity, why are there different glassfish tarballs for AIX, Solaris, Linux, MacOs?
>
> Isn't the idea of running java applications (= read also appservers, because it is just and application running under java) being platform independent?
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Robin
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