Hi Martijn.
GlassFish is very portable and it runs in _many_ platforms, and Sun
supports it officially in quite a number of them, some using Sun's JVM,
some using IBM's JVM. FreeBSD is not one of Sun's supported platforms
but GF should run fine there; IIRC, the first report was back in 2006,
see [1]
[1]
http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/tags/freebsd
If you need formal support, we will always consider adding a new
supported platform but we need some commercial justification to do that.
Alternatively, we might be able to find a smaller SI that can give you
support for your platform.
Let me know if I can help.
- eduard/o
Martijn S wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I want to start deploying an application on serveral locations using
> Glassfish V2. All of our twenty-something servers run FreeBSD, so I'd prefer
> to use it for this new application. However I'm not sure if this is a good
> idea.
>
> Am I right in thinking 'a JVM = a JVM' and that Glassfish should work fine
> once I have it running, or can I expect to experience problems? I really
> like Glassfish, but I'd really like to stick to FreeBSD, too. There's not
> much information to be found on the subject on-line.
>
> Your input is appreciated!
>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn