Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 02:48:42 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com> Cc: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@mt.sri.com Subject: Re: Java support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903150246050.348-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990315011224.00abb810@mailbox.iwaynet.net>
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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Brian Adkins wrote: > At 09:12 PM 3/14/99 -0600, Steve Price wrote: > ># Personally I think a free OS combined with Java is an incredible > ># combination; however, when I read things like "this might work for you, or > ># it might not" on the Java port page, it makes me not want to consider > ># FreeBSD as a host for my server even though everything else about FreeBSD > ># gets me excited. > > > >Can you site some specific examples of what's troubling you. I can > >try it on one of about a dozen FreeBSD boxes at work to see if it > >indeed works. > > Wow! You guys sure are responsive! > > There isn't a specific example of what's troubling me because I haven't > even installed FreeBSD yet. One of my concerns has been the time > difference between when the JDK is ready on NT / Solaris and when it's > ready on the free OS's as well as what "ready" means. I'm currently > developing on JDK 1.2 although so far I haven't written anything that can't > be run with JDK 1.1.6 and the Swing classes, so hopefully I can find some > time in the next week, or so, to install FreeBSD & Java and test my app. > Maybe I can help out with beta testing upcoming JDK's if things go well. You may want to think on that. I know of two groups that are purposely keeping their development at 1.1.7, because using the jdk from then lets you change your swing release to whatever you want (swing being a set of libs kept separate from the jdk) while in 1.2 (Java2) it's part of the jdk. It allows them to be more flexible. On top of that, there were a couple of last minute changes to the jdk in 2 that made serious slowdowns in some graphics routines. > > Thanks again for all the responses I received so quickly. > > Brian Adkins > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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