Hey Aaron, I do development and testing on my ubuntu laptop, so OpenJDK is used quite a bit:
$ java -version java version "1.6.0_23" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11pre) (6b23~pre11-0ubuntu1.11.10.2) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode) -Eric On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Aaron Cordova <[email protected]> wrote: > So, you may or may not have noticed, but Oracle is making it harder and > harder to install the Sun Java SDK on Linux. It's not available in any repo > for ubuntu anymore for example. Also, someone at a recent Hadoop Meetup > mentioned that Oracle's official support for Sun Java 1.6 might be expiring > soon .. ? > > Some Linux distros are claiming that OpenJDK is good enough. The day > before yesterday I installed Cloudera Hadoop, ZooKeeper and built Accumulo > 1.4 from source on a Virtual machine running Ubuntu Maverick with OpenJDK > and it seemed to run fine. But I haven't done any rigorous testing yet. > > Are there any plans to add testing of OpenJDK to Accumulo? Does anyone > anticipate any problems in switching to a new JVM? > > There are others besides OpenJDK, IBM Jrockit I think, etc. .. although I > only think it's important to support the one most users are likely to need, > and that's looking less like Sun JDK and more like OpenJDK. > > One other reason to perhaps look at OpenJDK is that it might make it > easier for someone to create a more pure distribution of the whole stack, > from a licensing perspective. > > > Aaron
