Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:43:17 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Sean Willson <willson@laa.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.0.2 on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961108153254.5871A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <9611081547.AA08574@handset.laa.com>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Sean Willson wrote: > > Hello, > > I am looking for the Java JDK 1.0.2 on FreeBSD. Can anyone tell me where > to find it or where I can obtain more information on it? I would greatly > appreciate it. Thanks.... You can try out a "beta" version by grabbing jdk.1.0.2.tar.gz at ftp://frefall.freebsd.org/incoming I't quite good. The javac compiler seems perfect so far. The java interpreter isn't so hot however -- although the only problems I've really had with it are in the AWT (same problems as Linux exhibits - general AWT crappyness and inconsistency with the specification) and for some reason I can't seem to be able to open "ServerSocket" sockets.. I get a "Resource temporarily Unavailable" exception. And, like all Unix JKD's, it only runs in 8bpp or 24bpp. So 256 or 16Million colors are it --> no 32K or 64K color modes. :-( I've been testing it quite hard, cause I think it will be important for FreeBSD to have FULL java support in the future, so take a look at it, and report bugs to hacker@freebsd.org. Note, however, that the port isn't officially supported by the author. Oh yeah, it also seems brutal slow at bringing up dialog windows. Not sure why! The multithreaded stuff also is VERY slow. Again, I've seen the same problems on the Linux port from Blackdown, so I'm guessing the FreeBSD port borrows heavily from it. I guess it's tricky to do threading on an OS that doesn't have threads (at least not in the kernel). Hopefully, the JDK 1.1 release in '97 will clear up a lot of the general compaintes about the shittyness of AWT in 1.0.2, and then we can focus on getting a good java interpreter into FreeBSD. cya, -Mark ------------------------------------------------ | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | RingZero Comp. www.quickweb.com | ------------------------------------------------ "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch > > Sean Willson > > --- > Sean M. Willson. Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. +1 313 995 5590 > willson@laa.com Operations Support Systems +1 313 995 5989 (fax) > 2350 Green Road Suite 160 Ann Arbor, MI, 48105 USA
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