Oracle JDK for ARM Hard-Float EA Expected By Year End

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 5:40PM
Robert Savage in Embedded Computing, Java, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi, java, jdk, jre, oracle, pi, raspberry, raspi

Oracle announces plans to have early access (EA) builds of JDK for Linux ARM hard float ABI by end of 2012 in a Twitter post.  

Oracle announces EA builds for Linux ARM hard float ABI will be available by the end of the year. #javaonebrasil

— Java (@java) December 4, 2012

 

This is great news for Java programmers on the Raspberry Pi!  See this earlier post on JVM benchmarks using the current Oracle JDK for soft-float.

I will post updates to the Oracle JVM installation instructions and benchmarks articles when the new JVM for hard-float becomes available.

Article originally appeared on SHA (http://www.savagehomeautomation.com/).