Hey Stu, I can just comment from my personal experiences with OpenJDK, which are not entirely HBase related. Let's sum it up in one sentence: Use the Sun JDK whenever possible.
Various tools, packages and libraries that I used - if i recall even maven - used some classes or packages that were not present in the OpenJDK or were not working as expected. The first thing I do on a linux machine with OpenJDK on it is to replace it with the Sun JDK. Just one other thing, I really appreciate the efforts that go into OpenJDK - great cudos - but I have been running constantly into issues where my Java programs don't work as expected with it. Nonetheless I would like to see a free JDK implementation. My two cents, Ulrich On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Stuart Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Ubuntu is currently pulling the sun java plugin from ubuntu, and will be > pulling all sun java packages from partner archives, replacing the current > packages with empty ones. They have stated this will break all packages > depending on Sun Java: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/472466/ > > Thought I'd give a heads up to the list, and ask about solutions. > I've used openjdk with hadoop before, but shifted to sun java as > recommended. > > How bad is openjdk with hadoop? It seemed OK when I used it. I even > accidently left one node with openjdk for a long time, and the rest with > Sun, and it was fine. > > Any thoughts? Recommendations? > > (I'll cross-post on hadoop user, hopefully ppl don't get mad!) > > Take care, > -stu > -- Ulrich Staudinger *CEO* <http://goog_958005736>http://www.activequant.com Connect online: https://www.xing.com/profile/Ulrich_Staudinger
