HotSpot(TM) Client is the compiler in this case. JITs compile code on
first use. HotSpot is an adaptive compiler, and doesn't compile until
after the code has already run for a while.

You can switch the compiler off with -Xint, in which case the "mixed
mode" part of the message will change to "interpreted mode". -Xcomp will
turn off the compiler, giving "compiled mode".

There are much more recent versions of Java 1.4 than that, which should
have a number of security fixes present.

Tom Hawtin

There isn't any; you just have to know.

There's usually information in the documentation which comes with the download
(not the JavaDoc), but quite often you have to know what the /previous/ version
was like to make sense of the changes they describe.  Also you may have to read
between the lines a little -- for instance if there's an option to disable the
JIT, then it's a fair guess that there is a JIT in use normally ;-)

But the bottom line is you have to consume all the available information, /and/
remember it.  A geek thing ;-)

Find your inner 13-y-o boy....

   -- chris