Java ported to BubbaTwo

[trencarbe]

It is not possible to use Sun JAVA on the bubba, as they don't ship version for the powerpc architecture directly. There is the new openjdk that is available in debian, and supported on powerpc, but as it is so new, it isn't directly available for etch (which the bubba is based on); We are investigating possible ways to port openjdk to the bubba, but we can't give you any time estimate yet.

Yes please, port it! We do want Java on BubbaTwo!

[kfudd]

I second that!

[Tompa]

Absolutely!

My dream would be to install the Grasshopper engine so that .NET applications can be ran on bubba.

http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=130

For that dream to come true I would need both Tomcat and Java up and running. Performance-wise I haven't got a clue if it's feasable but I think even a slow .NET environment would do for me.

/Tompa

[d94ka]

I have Java and Tomcat running on my Bubba Two, using IBM's JDK for PowerPC. It seems to work very well (but of course uses a lot of memory).

I don't remember exactly which JDK I downloaded, but I think it's the one for 32-bit iSeries/pSeries at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/ ... nload.html

As I remember it, there weren't any problems installing it, apart from the fact that it wants to have libstdc++5.

"java -version" output:

bubba:~# java -version
java version "1.6.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxp3260sr2-20080818_01(SR2))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, J2RE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux ppc-32 jvmxp3260-20080816_22093 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - 20080816_022093_bHdSMr
JIT - r9_20080721_1330ifx2
GC - 20080724_AA)
JCL - 20080808_02