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Any IcedTea war stories?

Okay, my first serious question. :-D I'm playing around with OpenJDK (7, not 6), and am about to start trying to build IcedTea on my Ubuntu system. I'm keen to hear from those who have played with IcedTea and have stories (successes, pitfalls, etc.) to tell. All stories welcome, whatever distribution you use. Chances are, I'll very soo...

Why does IcedTea6 not compile Java 1.5 specific code?

I ran: javac Perf.java and got: ERROR in Prefs.java (at line 36) HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>(); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Syntax error, parameterized types are only available if source level is 1.5 When I type: java -version I get: java version "1.6.0_0" IcedTea6 1.4 (fedora-11.b14.fc10-i386) Runtime ...

Performance of IcedTea 6 vs Sun's HotSpot 6

How does IcedTea 6's performance stand up against Sun's own HotSpot on linux systems? I tried searching Google but Phoronix's test is the best I got, which is almost a year old now. Hopefully things have improved since then. Also, once Sun completely open sources the JVM, would it be possible to implement it for Linux platforms such tha...

Java & PHP sessions

Hi, I'm creating a Java applet which communicate with my PHP website by requesting pages and retrieving their contents. It works pretty well and it allows my applet to use PHP sessions. However, I tried to launch the applet with Opera (instead of Firefox), and it appears that Opera doesn't let my applet use its PHP session, and as Java...

IcedTea and lwgjl

I have recently found myself on a Linux computer and am liking it so far. However, I have been having an issue and dont really know the source. I am trying to make a java project that uses lwjgl in eclipse (something I have done in windows) but when I run the code my display window comes up black and blinking and I get this error report...