Re: SUN supports Java on Linux?

1999-02-06 Thread Uncle George
Sun does not support me in my attempts to get JAVA/Linux for Digital Alpha. No Hardware, No telephone/fax/email support, and no Java Compatability Kit. Nor has SUN attempted to do so with the whole Linux developer community. Gerald Gutierrez wrote: So what exactly did SUN do when they spoke of

RE: Another JDK 1.2 Status Report

1999-02-06 Thread Nelson Minar
But what about "true" multitasking? In my experience, green threads don't do that very well. In Java, green threads may not do multitasking at all. Java makes no guarantees about preemptive threading - it's entirely correct for one thread to dominate the CPU, as long as it's the highest

Re: SUN supports Java on Linux?

1999-02-06 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Gerald Gutierrez writes: Gerald So what exactly did SUN do when they spoke of their Gerald "support of the Linux developer community" Gerald (http://java.sun.com/pr/1998/11/pr981102-01.html)? I've Gerald heard that they released the JDK1.2 source to Blackdown Gerald prior

Mo space/bandwidth?

1999-02-06 Thread Uncle George
i have a v3 of the non-com java port to the Digital Alpha. Someone gave me the JavaCC ( jet another compiler compiler ) to try, and it failed to completely write out one of the tables. ( one of Suns char to byte routines was broken - so much for the JCK ). any way are u folks still offering some

Re: SUN supports Java on Linux?

1999-02-06 Thread Albrecht Kleine
Hi, Gerald Also, am I correct in assuming that the Linux JDK1.2 port Gerald will not have a JIT? Does anyone have any performance 1.2 for i386 includes sunwjit. The port isn't finished yet and so it doesn't make much sense to show benchmark results now. Does that mean tha the

Re: SUN supports Java on Linux?

1999-02-06 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Albrecht Kleine writes: 1.2 for i386 includes sunwjit. The port isn't finished yet and so it doesn't make much sense to show benchmark results now. Albrecht Does that mean tha the sunwjit will not be released Albrecht together (= at same time) as JDK 1.2 for 386 ? No, JDK

Green/Native threads

1999-02-06 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
The difference between "green" threads and "native" threads is that in the latter the operating system provides for thread support while in the former the application, in this case a JVM, builds its own thread support on top of one native thread. Hence, if a JVM's green thread implementation

jre

1999-02-06 Thread alexander lang
Hi, I am quite the rookie computer guy and am having trouble getting my application to work with jre1.1.7. I am getting this error message: "../usr/local/jre117_v1a/bin/i586/green_threads/jre: can't load library 'libXp.so.6' I looked in the jdk directories and found this file (and other .so

Re: jre

1999-02-06 Thread Michael Sinz
On Sat, 06 Feb 1999 15:17:03 PST, alexander lang wrote: Hi, I am quite the rookie computer guy and am having trouble getting my application to work with jre1.1.7. I am getting this error message: "../usr/local/jre117_v1a/bin/i586/green_threads/jre: can't load library 'libXp.so.6' This

Re: jre

1999-02-06 Thread Michael Sinz
On Sat, 06 Feb 1999 15:17:03 PST, alexander lang wrote: Hi, I am quite the rookie computer guy and am having trouble getting my application to work with jre1.1.7. I am getting this error message: "../usr/local/jre117_v1a/bin/i586/green_threads/jre: can't load library 'libXp.so.6' This