Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:47:23 -0500 From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>, "Nate Williams" <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: so how goes java? (barf!!!!) Message-ID: <02b001bd421d$d03a2c00$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>
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looking at how MS-outlook express posted this message..... well it made me seriously ill, hmmm i wonder if pine still has that wonderful functionallity... (sorry) -Alfred -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 9:50 AM Subject: Re: so how goes java? >>> I'm kinda stuck here, i've got the latest version of the FreeBSD JDK from >>> http://www.freebsd.org/java but it won't let me install the BDK (java >beans >>> devel kit) i was wondering if anyone has had success? >> >>You'd be alot better off sending this to freebsd-java. In any case, I'm >>looking at this right now. The BDK that I have requires you to unpack >>it under Solaris (it has Solaris binaries in it), so one of the problems >>is due to that. >> >>> bascally the VM crashes right after the splashscreen comes up for the >>> installer program, if anyone is interested i have a dump of what goes >wrong, >>> it is always the same and always happens at the same point. >> >>How did you get it to use the FreeBSD jre? >> >i guess it was wrong, but i sent mail to java-port yesterday and mail >to -hackers just today, still no reponse from java-ports :) > >anyhow basically to execute the BDK install you just need to: > >setenv CLASSPATH <path>/<that_ugly_zipfile_you_downloaded> > >then type: >java install > >interestingly the .zip file seems to be some sort of class archive. > >on a recent 3.0 system (make world as of last night) it just plains dies >right away, but on a 2.2-stable of about Jan. 11th it gets farther but then >also dies (makes it to somewhere in the splash screen) both crashes are >always the same and easily reproducable on my 2 systems. > >anyhow i just called javasoft and they had no clue as to what i was talking >about so i spent another long while getting irritated by thier site, but i >think i found it! w00 h00! so if none of these links peter out i should wind >up with the JDK NDA in front of me in a few more clicks... > >and now i'm expecting a bulk package of java "stuff" in my mailbox as a >result of my telephone call (whoops) :) > >>> oh, and last thing, are the threads implemented by our JDK pre-emptive or >>> co-operative? >> >>They are not pre-emptive. > > >(figures since until recently the SUN version was also co-operative) >one of my first things (besides fixing this problem) is to look into native >threads, co-operative multitasking is an oxymoron. >i also plan on having several snapshots of 3.0 compiled versions of the >port. i'll inform the porting team when my NDA is all set and good. > >-Alfred > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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