Comments on: IBM (quietly) releases their JDK5.0 (beta)

By: Michael McCutcheon

Michael McCutcheon — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:25:11 +0000

I tried the IBM JDK 5.0 beta on scimark and got a score of 304. With the JDK 1.6 beta (using -server), I got 350…so the IBM VM seems to be slower, atleast in this benchmark.

Anyone else got any benchmarks?

By: Code Performance

Code Performance — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:41:28 +0000

Dan Nelson:

J9 runs on (from Kevin Stoodley’s slides):

PowerPC (AIX, Linux, OSE, QNX, WinCE, Mac OS X)
IA32 (Windows, Linux, QNX, Neutrino)
Sparc (Solaris)
ARM (Linux, QNX, PocketPC)
SH4 (WinCE, Itron, QNX)
SH3 (WinCE)
MIPS (PocketPC, QNX)
68K (PalmOS)
390 (Linux)
Others–supported by VM Builder (Alpha, PA-RISC, X86-64, IA64, …)

By: Dan Nelson

Dan Nelson — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:50:22 +0000

I don’t see any source downloads, so you’re still locked into using two OSes (and even the 1.3 and 1.4 only supported three OSes). Sun IP or not, their JDK runs on a whole lot more platforms.

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Allen’s Blog :: IBM (quietly) releases their JDK5.0 (beta) — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:48:07 +0000

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By: Harish Madhavan

Harish Madhavan — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:22:22 +0000

If you just look at recent times, the number of installations on IBM based products are increasing ! *Quiety* releasing a JDK which is going to be(in future) the base for most of the applications deployed in future is just worrying !

By: Nick Lothian

Nick Lothian — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:11:38 +0000

It is true that J9 itself doesn’t have any Sun IP, but the IBM JDK libraries are derived from the Sun libraries.