Ubuntu 12.04 and JAMVM

[Mario Torre]

I may be wrong, but I think is this:

openjdk-7-jdk

Cheers,
Mario

2013/1/17 Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com>:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Richard Warburton
>> <richard.warburton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > JAM VM is the default on ARM [0], is that the platform you're
>> > installing on?
>>
>> Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS on 32-bit x86
>>
>> oh, this sheds some light:
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7
>>
>> icedtea-7-jre-cacao: Transitional package for obsolete Cacao JVM for
>> OpenJDK
>> icedtea-7-jre-jamvm: Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using JamVM
>> openjdk-7-dbg: Java runtime based on OpenJDK (debugging symbols)
>> openjdk-7-demo: Java runtime based on OpenJDK (demos and examples)
>> openjdk-7-doc: OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) documentation
>> openjdk-7-jdk: OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)
>> openjdk-7-jre: OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot Zero
>> openjdk-7-jre-headless: OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot Zero
>> (headless)
>> openjdk-7-jre-lib: OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independent
>> libraries)
>> openjdk-7-jre-zero: Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using Zero/Shark
>> openjdk-7-source: OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) source files
>>
>> So it looks like I should be installing package ´openjdk-7-jre´,
>> which
>> was NOT listed among the options when one types ´java´ on a freshly
>> installed Ubuntu system.
>>
>> It´s a bit odd that calling "java" when it´s not installed only gives
>> JAM VM and Cacao as options, and openjdk-7-jre is not listed. As if
>> they don´t want Hotspot installed.
>>
>> Maybe I should file a bug to have openjdk-7-jre shown along the other
>> alternatives...
>>
>> But this brings another question:
>>
>> icedtea-7-jre-cacao: Transitional package for obsolete Cacao JVM for
>> OpenJDK
>> icedtea-7-jre-jamvm: Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using JamVM
>>
>> does this mean that Icedtea -the browser plug-in- can only be used
>> with JamVM and Cacao in Ubuntu?
>>
>> FC
>>
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>>
>
> This is baffling to me.  I don't know what Ubuntu's reasoning is here, but
> you don't want:
>
> openjdk-7-jre: OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot Zero
>
> as this won't make use of the x86 HotSpot JIT, instead being purely interpreted
> (and thus very slow).
>
> Wondering where the standard HotSpot is... :-S
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