Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 07:11:02 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@sunyit.edu> To: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Amancio Hasty" <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Java Apps? Message-ID: <199801040840.IAA26425@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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At my school: SUNY Tech in New York we use FreeBSD as the programming enviornment for most of our classes, including java, the current port 1.1.5 is awesome so far, the first time i've been able to get the java SDK working on my box at home. the only problem i see honestly, is lack of a visual GUI builder (if one exists please point me there) -Alfred ---------- > From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> > To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD Java Apps? > Date: Sunday, January 04, 1998 5:23 AM > > > Curious, are people using FreeBSD to develop Java apps ? > > >From my brief exposure to jdk1.1.5 , Swing, Beans, etc.., it seems > that there is enough critical infra-structure to create useful apps > also there are plenty of lessons there in OO methodology -- > actually Java looks more like a cross-road of OO techniques. > > This is the have been trying to solve for FreeBSD : > Provide or highlight a technology which people can actually use > to develop applications. > > My first venture was to port X to 386bsd 0.0 , then > porting of Inteviews, and later on tcl . Must say that neither of > those technologies have been sufficient or catalysts for > developing applications. > > So is Java the technology which will launch application development > in FreeBSD?? > > When I am more up to speed on Java , my test target application will be > a graphical front-end for my Pilot 8) > > Cheers, > Amancio > > >
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