From owner-freebsd-java Mon Sep 4 23:24:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mail.yahoo.com (smtp2.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2BB137B422 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 23:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhodespc.dsl.telerama.com (HELO rhoderunner1) (205.201.10.60) by smtp2.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Sep 2000 06:24:09 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <001201c01700$defa5340$3c0ac9cd@rhoderunner1> From: "Phillip Rhodes" To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7817@l04.research.kpn.com> Subject: Re: Best JDK 1.2+ Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 02:16:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Following the instructions for building the native JDK. When I get to the following port (Swing 1.1.1 (/usr/ports/java/jfc/) , the sun site is giving me a 404. Any suggestions? Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koster, K.J." To: "'Phillip Rhodes'" Cc: Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 6:24 AM Subject: RE: Best JDK 1.2+ > Hello Philip, > > > > > I want to run Java on my freebsd box (3.4), but I am very confused > > as to which port I should go with. Should/Can I use blackdown, > > sun or some other port? > > > I'm terribly biased :) but I think you should use the native FreeBSD port > for Sun's JDK. You'd have to build it yourself, but that is really very > easy, see: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/kjkoster/java/index.html. > > If you need Swing, you may be better off using blackdown's port for now > (it's in /usr/ports/java/linux-jdk). In it's current form, the native port > has redrawing problems for Swing applications. We'll lick that one soon > enough, I'm sure. :-) > > I compile and run server-side stuff using the native port, but use the Linux > port to display Swing applications. > > Using the native port has the advantage that if you run into a bug in it, > there is a good chance that someone will pick it up and fix it. It is a > little more "alive" in that sense. > > Kees Jan > > ================================================= > TV is the worst of both worlds. It's not as > good at words as radio is because the pictures > are a distraction which demand attention, and > it's not as good as cinema because the pictures > are not nearly as good. > Douglas Adams __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message