Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:47:41 -0500 From: Wayne Willcox <wayne@reliant.immure.com> To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.rg.iupui.edu> Cc: Chris <chris@tourneyland.net>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of Java Development on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000817214741.A94700@reliant.knighthammer.com> In-Reply-To: <399C2838.E969EF9@aurora.rg.iupui.edu> References: <3.0.6.32.20000817104928.008c1d00@mail.tourneyland.net> <399C2838.E969EF9@aurora.rg.iupui.edu>
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If you want to work with Samba I find the Using Samba book very
helpful. Lets face most of us don't really want to be the Samba
expert but to just make it work. :-)
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:00:24PM -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I think at some point you're going to make the switch over to UNIX and
> you will be so happy you've done that. The way you describe your
> working with Windoze it looks like your prognosis is excellent (your
> using Alt-Tab shows that you're not yet addicted to clicky-click.)
>
> Your not getting X up is a major stumbling block and it shouldn't be
> that difficult as I can see it turning you off. But since you still
> keep trying shows just how excellent your prognosis is! :-)
>
> If you have a little time to spare I suggest you track down that X11
> problem first and then get emacs running. All you need to start is
> some bash basics and some emacs basics. You can do it all on the non-
> X console, but it looks more pleasing if you get X running. Getting
> SAMBA up and working is not a no-brainer either, so you may be better
> off just swiching the console between an emacs window and a shell window.
>
> Jikes works just fine on FreeBSD. So you're all set.... but, Java-1.2.2
> is only available in some cumbersome alpha port as of now, so if you
> want JDK 2 (and there are very good reasons to want it) you need to
> get that alpha port running (ugh) but you may wait just a few weeks
> before you can download the first native FreeBSD JDK2 binary.
>
> If you want to stick to Windoze for now, and if you get Samba up and
> working for you (if you don't you *have* to work through the
> Diagnostics page that guide you step by step ...) you can even do
> the compiling from Windows, since the class files are not system
> dependent binaries. The only issue left is then that you have to use
> the JDK that you can get running on FreeBSD, which is 1.1.8 rock solid
> of 1.2.2 (with fingers crossed).
>
> keep the faith, you're gonna be happy you did it!
> -Gunther
>
>
>
> Chris wrote:
> >
> > (This is sort of a unrelated followup to my previous posting)
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm developing some server-side java code. I'm a Windows guy (though I've
> > been running FreeBSD for over a year now, half-assedly hosting some Web
> > sites), and thus far I've been doing all my development on Windows, using
> > jikes as my compiler and Apache for Windows as my Web server. But
> > ultimately, everything's going to be served by FreeBSD, and it's time I
> > start testing on a FreeBSD machine.
> >
> > One option would be to go all the way - get X-Windows running on my local
> > FreeBSD dev machine, learn emacs or something, and make that my desktop
> > machine. I'm a little intimidated by this prospect, in that I've never even
> > successfully gotten X installed before (I've made a few tries, but was
> > undone by undocced cheapy video cards and gave up). If I go this route, any
> > suggestions for development tools? I don't need any fancy form designers or
> > any visual stuff - I'm currently using Textpad and compiling from the
> > command line fom Windows, and all I really need is a little project
> > managment stuff.
> >
> > A (potentially) simpler option would be to keep my Windows machine as my
> > development machine, and through a combination of Samba and I guess some
> > other stuff, control my Free machine from my Windows machine. Samba would
> > be good enough for file editing, but for compiling and running I suppose
> > I'd have to Alt-Tab back and forth to a telnet window, which isn't too
> > savory. Are there tools out there for doing this sort of thing that I'm not
> > aware of?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
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