Re: [gentoo-user] which java?

[Jose Gonzalez Gomez]

Just to clarify about ee...     ee stands for enterprise edition. Java comes in three editions: micro edition (intended for use in mobile devices), standard edition (intended for running standalone applications, this is the one you will likely be using) and enterprise edition (intended for running enterprise applications in a server environment).     J2EE is just the definition of a standard platform for running enterprise applications in a server environment. This definition includes, among other things, a list of APIs and services a server should provide in order to become J2EE certified (JSPs, Servlets, EJBs,...). sun-j2ee is the reference implementation of the J2EE platform from sun. You have available other commercial implementations of the platform (Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Sun ONE...) as well some open source implementations (like JBoss, that you have available in another ebuild).     Regards Svein Harald Soleim wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:21, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: Can anyone give a comparsion as to which java to use? Also, sun has 3 versions; what is what? blackdown-jdk/ blackdown-jre/ ibm-jdk/ ibm-jre/ sun-j2ee/ sun-j2sdk/ sun-jdk/ -- ^^^ Kurt There is no good nor evil; there is only power. what are you going to use it for? sdk is development jre is just the run librarys, ee I'm not sure about maybe the striped version. I use sun-j2sdk-1.4.2 since I use it for development. # no working ebuilt for it yet :( The different from blackdown/sun and ibm is small I think more a taste. - -- gnuPG key: ID 915B0745 at http://pgp.mit.edu/ http://www.fribyte.uib.no/~svein/PublicKey.asc Key fingerprint = 0123 B179 0994 F5C7 12D3 F253 E0AA 6A67 915B 0745 Registered Linux User #319622 'The maths is easy,' said Chaos. 'AH? WELL, MATHS', said Death, dismissively. 'GENERALLY I NEVER GET MUCH FURTHER THAN SUBTRACTION.' ____________________________________________________ Svein Harald Soleim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Ii3S4KpqZ5FbB0URAhR7AJ41t4SVFQL5oDppD9S8SnTIQZvX5wCfcNeo FQnxGHyF1I7bVKYOW+WeGy8= =mhou -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list