[parisc-linux] Java 5

[Curtis Cooley]

John David Anglin wrote:
>> I poked around quite a bit looking for a Java5 JRE that runs on PA-RISC 
>> Linux, but I have not found one. Has anybody had luck with this. We 
>> inherited 5 HP B2000s and we are a Java shop, so running Java is a key 
>> to them being useful.
>>     
>
> Hmmm, you want Sun's Java5 for HP!  Not too likely.  See
> <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/system-configurations.html>.
> As far I can tell, only Sparc, x86 and Itanium processors
> are supported and even for these the matrix is incomplete.
>
> There might be hope in the future given Sun's decision to
> open source Java.
>
> For PA-RISC linux, there's the support within GCC.  There may
> be one or two other implementations but I don't know any details
> about these.
>
>   
I don't really care that it's necessarily from Sun, but that it supports 
Java5.