Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:36:19 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: javac, jdk etc Message-ID: <199608291536.QAA26998@crux> In-Reply-To: <101341310@toto.iv>
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Sujal Patel said: >On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Vlad wrote: > >> (1) I install all three ports (netscape3, jdk-1.0.2, and javac_netscape) >> with little trouble (I have to modify the Makefiles for netscape3 port to >> have the latest version of netscape as well as java_30 instead of moz...what- >> ever.zip installed). Netscape as a browser runs Ok, I can see applets (including >> some I've written myself in Solaris JDK), but javac always fails with this >> message: >> Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread > >The javac_netscape port hasn't actually worked correctly since early >Netscape 3.0 betas or Netscape 2.0(2?) > > >> (2)Is JDK really necessary ? Why are the files installed by jdk port >> required, seeing that they are for Solaris after all ? > >The files that it installs from the Solaris JDK are needed, they are >actually interpreted by the Java virtual machine. > >Instead of using javac_netscape (unless you dig up a version of Netscape >that works), I would suggest you get the "kaffe" port. It will allow you >to do what you want (but it still has some bugs). > > >Sujal > > kaffe doesn't support any graphical stuff, unless things have changed dramatically since the last release that I saw. Jeffrey Hsu's port of the 1.0 JDK (also AWT-free) has always worked better than kaffe for me. I can send you a copy of this if you want it. Scott =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell, CompSci Dept, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK mailto:scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~scott finger scott@ruby.dcs.qmw.ac.uk for PGP public key
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