Re: [Javamath-discuss] Java on MacOS X ??

[Paul L. <pa...@ag...>]

Sure...

Runs smoothly, is very fast (a good hotspot), is multi-processor-able 
and... ah... for command-line thing, a delicious thing... jar-caching 
that prevents the need to remake the complete class-load process at 
reinvocation. For example XSL transformations are pretty quick.
GUI applications tend to need a bit of adjustments... because it is a 
bit more non-standard than Windows and Solaris. But they're real quick 
as well (native double-buffering for Swing instead of the java one).
Debugging is not too good, but ADC has a preview that might solve it 
(haven't tested this yet). I believe Jini might also have a few 
troubles. Finally applets are still a complete nightmare aside of 
appletviewer (they're fixing this for soon probably).

Servers and browser ?? Sure... I'm doing this all the time ! Tomcat, a 
few servlets, a big RAM-based document (a fake databse, takes about 
100-150Mb or RAM)... all this is running very smoothly.

Browsers ?? OmniWeb is definitely your friend: real window info, request 
trace (ever tested corrupted headers ?), multithreading...

But... you NEED a lot of RAM !

A Powerbook G3 series could handle (slowly) the load of this server for 
"island" mode.
My G3 B&W 450 ran about as fast as any Linux boxes around (till 600Mhz).
The forelast dual-processor G4 (i.e. the 2x450) runs faster than our 
recent big four processor Solaris.

Paul



On Jeudi, mai 31, 2001, at 10:48 , Frank Wattenberg wrote:

> I would be very interested in anyone's experience using Java with MacOS 
> X.
>
> Also does anyone have any experience running a browser and server 
> simultaneously under OS X.  I'm interested in doing this both for 
> debugging and for running demos in "island" mode.  My previous 
> experience with earlier versions of the Mac OS was that it was 
> prohibitively slow.
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.
>
> Frank