Nice. And you haven't noticed any differences compared to the Sun JDK?
On Mar 15, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Eric Newton wrote: > 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
