Is it easier to port Solaris applications written in Java to Linux? What would be the difficulties in porting applications written in other languages?

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Yes, pure Java applications should run on any operating system where the required run time environment (JRE) is available. If the Java application uses native code, then some effort is required to port the native code to Linux.

Generally speaking, it is straightforward to port an application from Solaris to Linux. In fact, many porting issues for C and C++ applications normally arise from poorly written code that depends on endian-ness (Intel x86 processors are little endian where as the Sun Sparc processors are big endian)of the host processor.

This was first published in March 2005

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