The JRockit engineers made two assumptions when they first designed JRockit.
First, server VMs run for a long time and, second, memory is cheap and
plentiful. This motto still rings true in BEA's offering of the 8.1 (J2SE
1.4.1_03) version of this product. And, unlike the more familiar JVMs, this
VM comes with a face.
Acquiring and Installing JRockit
JRockit runs on the MS Windows and Red Hat Linux platforms and is available
in a 25MB download. The install was as uneventful as all installs should be.
As expected, the directory structure followed the standard JDK/JRE structure.
There were some differences in the content, but all of the standard tools
were present. What is missing are the familiar Javadoc and Java source JAR.
Not having the Javadoc was not an issue as it's... (more)
It was with great anticipation that I made my way to Antwerp to attend
BeJUG's (Belgium Java Users Group) second offering of JavaPolis. The vendors
occupied a spacious hall while the presentations were conducted in spacious
movie theatres all located in the Metroplex center. Though the setup was
easily capable of handling the 750+ attendees, there was a large gap between
the speakers and... (more)
Last year I was introduced to the No Fluff, Just Stuff (NFJS) Software
symposium (www.nofluffjuststuff.com) in Atlanta. It was a high-quality
experience in every aspect. The speakers delivered more than technical
information, they delivered an insight into what was happening in our
industry. The Dallas edition of NFJS (Lone Star Software Symposium)
maintained (if not exceeded) this high ... (more)
We've all heard the news: JBoss has received $10 million in funding and now
it's time to sit back and mull it over. Without a doubt this infusion of
capital is a signal of confidence for JBoss Group. But is this investment a
good thing for open source? Not an unimportant question for those of us who
have decided to use open source in our enterprise applications. If
organizations are just... (more)
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Well, you may have seen the Java Industry Newsletter's hot story, "Eclipse
versus NetBeans." As an editor of this fine publication, it's my privilege to
see all of our feedback arriving at my inbox. My first reaction was, oh
please, not another IDE war. But I dutifully suppressed the urge to delete
the e-mails and started to r... (more)
Kirk Pepperdine has more than 10 years of experience in OO technologies. In edition to his work in the area of performance tuning, Kirk has focused on building middleware for distributed applications.
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