Over the past several months I've been working on improving the support for FreeBSD in the OpenJDK project, as well as setting up infrastructure for building and testing the FreeBSD OpenJDK port. All sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.
The work has involved closely working with the upstream OpenJDK project, fiddling with arcane configure scripts, unfamiliar CPU architectures and learning a lot about the internals – both of OpenJDK and FreeBSD (and other BSD's as well.)
In this presentation I will give a quick overview and status on where the project stands at this time, what the road ahead looks like, and talk about the process, and what I've learned along the way.
About the speaker
Harald Eilertsen is software developer and information security professional. He has been programming computers since the early 1980's, and has worked for companies like Tandberg, Cisco, Modirum and Automattic. He is currently self employed and working as an independent consultant.
He is a core contributor to the Hubzilla open source project. And you can follow him on the fediverse as @harald@hub.volse.no.