I was wanting to know if sun offers a tool that you can download and run to check the compatibility of your system and it's components for an switch over to solaris 10. i am currenlty running windows xp and was wanting to make the switch, and wondered if there was a tool for that or if i needed to check compatibility of all my components on the compatibility list.
I doubt it, since all the Java byte code would be platform independant,
it's just how you use it that becomes platform dependant.
The biggest problems you'd hit when switching from Windows to Unix are
a) Unix file permissions eg. unable to read/write/create directories,
porting batch files to shell scripts, execute permission on scripts
b) Case sensitivities of files, directories, resources, property files
c) Any hard coded paths would need to be changed to use File.separator, for
their platform dependant equivalent
d) Potential file encoding problems on text files and property files, also
in carriage return & linefeeds
e) Potentially "headless" environments in Unix. Where they don't have an X-Server running, so most, if not all, your Awt & Swing calls would fail.
f) Any calls to native libraries would need to Unix system objects instead of the Windows DLL's.( *.so )
regards,
Owen
