On Jan 25, 2009, at 23:29, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart wrote:
> 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.
Right. I think that the model where the system integrator reproduces
the error on a supported platform is a win-win-win for the customer,
the SI, and Sun.
Of course, if no SI is needed, you can do the reproduction and bug
filing yourself as well.
cheers,
-Alexis
> 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
>
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