Patchlevel 4 report.

[Roberto de Iriarte]

I could not help but notice the complaints about the difficulties to get 
native Java
running on FreeBSD.

For a change, i wanted to say just thanks for the excellent work, i've 
found the
new patchlevel to be very stable (on libc_r and libkse) and excellent 
performing
(especially on libkse)

For those who complain, in my experience, no J2SE implementation has 
been perfect,
ever, but FreeBSD's 1.4.1 patchlevel 4 seems among the better ones in 
the limited
testing that i've been able to perform so far, and i have seen really 
bad ones, like
CompaQ J2SE 1.3 for Alpha, that would not complete VolanoMark if the JIT
was enabled, even after eating up 2GB of ram, not to speak of the 
horrible performance
of the Linux J2SE for Alpha, that was not even able to complete the 
Java2D demo!
Somebody mentioned Apple's J2SE, it has bugs too (i've found nowhere to 
complain
nor ways to debug it, the wonders of packaged software ....). Try to run 
the Car Configurator applet at http://www.bmw.de/ to experience one (It 
runs perfectly on FreeBSD native 1.4.1p4 plugin)

FYI, i'm running CURRENT as of yesterday
% uname -a
FreeBSD netvista.spock.cl 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Thu Oct 23 
01:45:10 CLST 2003     
root at netvista.spock.cl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Thanks again!
Regards
Roberto