Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:27 +0100 From: "Jorn Argelo" <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>, Weehamama@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does freeBSD have CORBA specs and does it have J2sdk1.4.2 ? Message-ID: <20050102103335.M37543@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050102102538.GE14949@alzatex.com> References: <199.3548f13a.2f00bff7@aol.com> <20050102102538.GE14949@alzatex.com>
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:25:38 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:31:35PM -0500, Weehamama@aol.com wrote: > > I have been told it does have both already, but I can't find it in any of > > documentations. I'm specifically talking about freebsd on emulab.net. > > Yes, freebsd has had both corba and sun java for a long time. corba > is needed by the gnome desktop which is very well supported on > freebsd plus many gnome app even if you don't use the gnome desktop. > Your pretty much guaranteed that freebsd will have corba already > installed and running because of this. It uses ORBit, the same > implementation used on linux and so all the same docs apply to > freebsd, just check out orbits website. > > For java, freebsd can use ibm or sun's java implementation. ibm runs > under linux emulation and sun can run under linux emulation or natively. > There are also a few open source jvm's like kaffe available. Also, you have the blackdown-java project. AFAIK it's open source as well, and it uses the Linux compatibility. Last time I compiled Java you required a working Java enviroment before you were able to compile Sun's Java implementation. Might be handy to keep that in mind. Cheers, Jorn
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