The decision was mostly a licensing one. Sun has a wide license for the native version of BDB, so that's where we started.

Many of us would like to see a pure-java version of the system, if only for making it easier to do setup and basic development, but no one here has had the time yet to make it happen. When we publish the code, maybe someone will write a Java DataManager for us?


seth

Hi rizenine.

Like Jeff said, Darkstar isn't really designed to be a streaming server, but there are other projects that do stream and are integrated with Darkstar. The MPK20 demo that Jeff mentioned is part of a larger project here at Sun to explore how distributed companies (like Sun) can use game environments to better communicate and collaborate. They have a robust VoIP bridge that they wrote, and they integrated this with Darkstar so that there's a VoiceManager that applications use, and which in turn uses Channels to do call management. It's pretty neat, and the goal is to make this service available so that anyone building on Darkstar can re-use these VoIP capabilities.


seth

Tell that to all the Linux users

Now it's all set up it's fine, but it was a pain to find a new enough bdb version for verious distros. Especially the enterprise distros as they update much slower.

Endolf

I think he's referring to the Java version of Berkeley DB. I was curious about this, too. Why use JNI with the C version when there is a pure Java version? Sleepycat was taken over by Oracle, but the license hasn't changed.