SableVM on SuSE 9.2 + Resin servlet engine...

Dear Sirs:

First of all, I would like to contratulate the authors of this titanic
effort, I was very impressed when Resin, which is a complex
application, started.

I just compiled SableVM + Classpath  (v1.12) on SuSE Pro v9.2, my
intention is to run Resin servlet engine v2.1.16, which at first sight
worked fine, using a test webapp that uses several APIs like JDBC,
JNDI. XML, etc.

Since I am new to the building-from-sources game, I have a few
questions about it:

My java server does use the flag: "-Djava.awt.headless=true" because
my linux server runs without a graphics environment. I just have to
make sure that X11 shared libraries (XOrg in SuSE 9.2) are present in
the system, no need to start a graphics server. This works fine with
IBM JDK 1.4.2, Sun's and Blackdown equivalent.

GTK stuff was the thing that caused me more trouble when compiling
SableVM, I finally found a flag to disable it (--disable-gtk-peer or
something like that) and also pointed "configure" to the location of
the X11 shared libraries. I was able to complete the build process of
the JVM, but the graphics services in my server-side application were
not working, aparently, the "-Djava.awt.headless=true" property had no
effect.

So my questions are: 

1.- What flags should be passed to "configure" in order to create a
JVM that can work in a headless environment.

2.- How does the JVM consume RAM, if the option -Xmx is not supported?

3.- Is it possible to compile a JVM that takes advantage of Linux
kernel 2.6 features like NTPL threads?

4.- Is there JSSE/JCE support?

5.- I cannot see any of the regular properties files (for jaxp,
security providers, Java Log API, etc) that are normally located under
/jre/... Are they contained in a JAR?

BTW: On SuSE 9.2 the directory /usr/local/lib must be included in
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, otherwise the SableVM complains about not finding
some "*.so" file.

Does someone have a SuSE RPM to install the binaries of the Sable SDK v1.12??

Best regards,
Martin

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