64 bit java on AMD?

[jian]

Does alfresco support 64 bit java on 64 bit Linux?

I'm using jdk-1_5_0_07-linux-amd64.bin from sun. When I tried to compile alfresco from source, it gave me following errors:

init:
     [echo] Starting build for repository at 17:36

common.compile-java:
    [mkdir] Created dir: /media/usbdisk/Linux/Alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/repository/build/classes
    [javac] Compiling 1276 source files to /media/usbdisk/Linux/Alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/repository/build/classes
    [javac] /media/usbdisk/Linux/Alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/repository/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/ContentMetadataExtracter.java:2: warning: unmappable character for encoding UTF8
    [javac]  * Copyright (C) 2005 Jesper Steen M�ller
    [javac]                                     ^
    [javac] /media/usbdisk/Linux/Alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/repository/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/ContentMetadataExtracter.java:46: warning: unmappable character for encoding UTF8
    [javac]  * @author Jesper Steen M�ller
    [javac]                          ^
    [javac] /media/usbdisk/Linux/Alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/repository/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/HtmlParserContentTransformerTest.java:28: warning: unmappable character for encoding UTF8
    [javac]     private static final String SOME_CONTENT = "azAz10!�$%^&*()\t\r\n";
    [javac]                                                        ^


    [javac] The system is out of resources.
    [javac] Consult the following stack trace for details.
    [javac] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

BUILD FAILED
/media/usbdisk/Linux/Alfresco/HEAD/root/common/build.xml:57: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/media/usbdisk/Linux/Alfresco/HEAD/root/common/common.xml:24: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.

Thanks,
Jian

[kevinr]

I don't know of a reason why it shouldn't - but it appears you need to give the ANT process more memory on a 64bit machine by default. I guess you will have to edit our build scripts to do that. I have fixed the two warnings you posted also and will check that in SVN shortly.

Thanks,

Kevin