On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:35:47PM +0200, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: > > Which java sdk should i use? > > What do you want to use it for? > > Gwendolyn.
IBM's JVMs for Linux have always outperformed the Sun ones on Linux (and Blackdown, I think). They have provide both a 1.3.x and 1.4.x JVM, and both perform very well. Sun made drastic improvements to performance between 1.3.x and 1.4.x, which makes it popular. I think the blackdown 1.4.x JVM also performs well, and it is the only one with a plugin that you'll get to work in your browsers in Gentoo (there is some glibc version issue with all the others, last I checked). If you want to write code that runs everywhere right now, there are still lots of people stuck in 1.3.x land, so you might want to shy away from 1.4.x for a little longer. Some of the new library functionality in 1.4.x is available via libraries from jakarta (http://jakarta.apache.org), such as log4j, Regex, ORO (perl-like regex). - richard -- Richard Kilgore [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
