Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 11:24:30 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: 'Phillip Rhodes' <rhodespc@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Best JDK 1.2+ Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7817@l04.research.kpn.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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