From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 4 02:24:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA16767 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 02:24:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com ([209.133.7.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA16758 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 02:24:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA11922 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 02:23:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199801041023.CAA11922@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Java Apps? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 02:23:56 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Curious, are people using FreeBSD to develop Java apps ? >From my brief exposure to jdk1.1.5 , Swing, Beans, etc.., it seems that there is enough critical infra-structure to create useful apps also there are plenty of lessons there in OO methodology -- actually Java looks more like a cross-road of OO techniques. This is the have been trying to solve for FreeBSD : Provide or highlight a technology which people can actually use to develop applications. My first venture was to port X to 386bsd 0.0 , then porting of Inteviews, and later on tcl . Must say that neither of those technologies have been sufficient or catalysts for developing applications. So is Java the technology which will launch application development in FreeBSD?? When I am more up to speed on Java , my test target application will be a graphical front-end for my Pilot 8) Cheers, Amancio