Hi Tony, thanks for your interest in the OpenJDK AIX port. The AIX port has been contributed by SAP in collaboration with our colleagues from IBM. It is based on SAP's internal, commercially licensed SAP JVM which is in productive use since more than 10 years.
We (from SAP) do nightly builds and tests of the OpenJDK AIX port and we're happy to help with any issues we see or which are reported by the community. But of course we can not guarantee any support - after all it's an open source project :) We've also contributed the OpenJDK linux/ppc64 port which is basically the same as the AIX port with regard to the CPU-specific code (i.e. interpreter, JIT, shared code, etc) and only differs in the OS-specific part (i.e. Linux vs. AIX). We know that the linux/ppc64 port is currently distributed by all major Linux vendors (RedHat, Ubuntu, Suse, etc) and used productively on their distributions without any major issues. Until now there hasn't been such a big interest in the AIX port (for obvious reasons :) but we would very much welcome a more widespread usage. Unfortunately, there's not much AIX-specific information available. You can get the basic bits from our project page [1] and Wiki [2]. The repositories for AIX are the current OpenJDK master repositories for jdk8u [3] and jdk9 [4]. Recently, IBM has started an effort together with the AdoptOpenJDK [5] project to establish a regular, open and freely available OpenJDK build and deliver the produced binaries. I've just invited you to their Slack channel (you should receive it by mail). Please follow that thread where we've recently discussed some build issues. One thing that may be of special interest for you is the the build currently only works with XLC and relies on some libraries from the "AIX toolbox for Linux" from IBM (i.e. for freetype). Also, we don't have RPM .spec files for building RPM until now. If you have any more questions please feel free to ask on this list and/or the Slack channel. Regards, Volker [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/ppc-aix-port/ [2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/PPCAIXPort [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u [4] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9 [5] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Adoption/Main On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:29 AM, REIX, Tony <tony.r...@atos.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I am one of the maintainers of the BullFreeware web-site where RPMs of > OpenSource packages for AIX are available (for free): > http://www.bullfreeware.com . > > I'd like to know: > - what is the status of this port of OpenJDK on AIX (is it usable in > production ?), > - where are the sources and the instructions for building it, and > - if there already exists a RPM .spec file for building RPMs. > > Thanks/Regards, > > Cordialement, > > Tony Reix > > Bull - ATOS > IBM Coop Architect & Technical Leader > Office : +33 (0) 4 76 29 72 67 > 1 rue de Provence - 38432 Échirolles - France > www.atos.net
