Robert Perry wrote:
>
> I have virtually no time, but would like to know how to help the
> Blackdown team. I'm not sure that I could help. I just started looking
> on the web paged expecting a todo list or something. Not seeing a "How
> to Help" page I though someone in this list could get me started.
Probably the most useful thing is to test Java 2 to destruction. Test in
as many ways you can in as many combinations on as many platforms and
system configurations. As far as I understand it, the current situation
is basically that Java 2 now passes the compatibility tests using green
threads and no JIT compiler, but that there are bugs in the JIT and some
other bugs regarding that and/or native threads where they haven't yet
found a pattern in what succeeds and what fails.
On this subject, if anyone's interested in my latest experiences with
the live JSP website I've deployed using Java 2 (not to be recommended I
know, but I needed some Java 2 features and it was that or NT), I've now
tried all the combinations. To recap:
System is SuSE 6.0 with kernel 2.2.9 SMP (+DoS patch), dual Pentium
II/350MHz blah (more details if requested)
Green threads, no JIT, all fine.
Green threads, with JIT, JVM crashes on initialisation.
Native threads, with JIT, all works well for a while (and FAST), but
then crashed after a few days.
Native threads, no JIT, the one combination I didn't get a chance to try
before: all seems fine so far. I set it going on this combination
earlier this week, and it's survived the condition that seemed to kill
native+JIT twice now.
--
Rachel
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