Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 02:18:41 -0400 From: "Phillip Rhodes" <rhodespc@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Best JDK 1.2+ Message-ID: <001701c01701$246d6890$3c0ac9cd@rhoderunner1> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7817@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Opps spoke too soon. Also, can not find host for package dgs. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnustep/dgs-0.5.9.tar.gz Thanks! PHillip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: "'Phillip Rhodes'" <rhodespc@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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