Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-11 Thread Diego Pons
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: > > > I'm not one of the kernel folk, but can you give me an example of > an application that would be impossible without hundreds of threads? > Or even one that would significantly benefit from hundreds of threads? A RMI server on the net. One of our servers is handlin

Re: J2SEE 1.3 for Linux!

2000-06-11 Thread Larry Sanderson
See below... > I have to say, I'm impressed with he power of the rumour > mill. Microsoft didn't buy out Transvirtual, they merely payed for the > development of some elements of the KaffeVM which made it compatible > with their own proprietary extensions. Despite the evil that MS > represents I

idlj

2000-06-11 Thread Brett W. McCoy
After not touching Java for like a year or two, I've started a new job that is going to require some Java programming. So, I'm giving myself a refresher course in Java, using the 1.3 JDK beta. I notice it now includes idlj, which replaces the old idltojava compiler, for which, I think, there was

Problems with Blackdown-Java-Plugin

2000-06-11 Thread Detlev Jäckel
Hello, I installed the recent Blackdown-Java-Plugin. I am using the Netscape 4.73 and SuSe 6.2 glibc2.1.2. There where no error or warnings during installation. NPX_PLUGIN_PATH is set to $HOME/.netscape/plugins. I can start the Java Console and it shows me, that it is using JRE-Version 1.2.2. When

Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-11 Thread Nelson Minar
>> I'm not one of the kernel folk, but can you give me an example of >> an application that would be impossible without hundreds of threads? Many of these examples have a common theme - lots of network I/O to different places. We've learned from web servers that it's actually better if you multip

Re: idlj

2000-06-11 Thread Nelson Minar
Slashdot picked up my note about JavaOne. >Anyway, the output of idlj doesn't quite grok with the CORBA tutorial >(HelloWorld); namely, it doesn't generate a ImplBase abstract class >but instead generates an Operations *interface*, which looks like it >must be implemented for use in the derived s

Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-11 Thread Matt Welsh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar) writes: > And green threads, in many ways, are just a thread > abstraction on top of the select() magic that you'd have to write > special purpose. Still, green threads do not work very well (see the first paper on my website for details) -- and they cannot take

Re: J2SEE 1.3 for Linux!

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 08:48:13AM -0700, Larry Sanderson wrote: > > with their own proprietary extensions. Despite the evil that MS > > represents I have to say that they've treated Transvirtual MUCH better > > than Sun. > > Do you mean Microsoft treated Transvirtual better than Microsoft treate

Re: idlj

2000-06-11 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Nelson Minar wrote: > >Anyway, the output of idlj doesn't quite grok with the CORBA tutorial > >(HelloWorld); namely, it doesn't generate a ImplBase abstract class > >but instead generates an Operations *interface*, which looks like it > >must be implemented for use in the de

Re: J2SEE 1.3 for Linux!

2000-06-11 Thread Nathan Meyers
Christopher Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 08:48:13AM -0700, Larry Sanderson wrote: > > > with their own proprietary extensions. Despite the evil that MS > > > represents I have to say that they've treated Transvirtual MUCH better > > > than Sun. > > > > Do you mean Microsoft treated Tran

Why nonblocking I/O in Java is hard

2000-06-11 Thread Matt Welsh
Our discussion on thread overheads and using nonblocking I/O in Java strikes close to home - here at Berkeley we are building an event-driven Internet server platform, implemented entirely in Java. Obviously for this to work we need nonblocking I/O primitives. So, I've been working on implement

jdk1.3 for linux?

2000-06-11 Thread wangmq
I want to download jdk1.3 for linux,but http://java.sun.com/jdc/earlyAccess/j2sdk13/download-linux.html  can't be linked. Anyone knows where is the suitale downloaded site.

Re: Why nonblocking I/O in Java is hard

2000-06-11 Thread Dimitris Vyzovitis
Matt Welsh wrote: In other words, although I was creating a nonblocking socket and issuing read calls against it in JNI-based C code, those system calls (from C) were in fact being caught by the Java runtime library which was turning them back into "blocking" access to the socket. This is because

Re: jdk1.3 for linux?

2000-06-11 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, wangmq wrote: > I want to download jdk1.3 for linux,but > http://java.sun.com/jdc/earlyAccess/j2sdk13/download-linux.html can't > be linked. Anyone knows where is the suitale downloaded site. Try: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/j2sdk13/download-linux.ht

Re: visual age and jdk1.3

2000-06-11 Thread Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 11:54:13AM +0800, yangyuexiang wrote: > I installed jdk1.3 from IBM in my redhat 6.2. Today, I > installed VisualAge 3.0, when I run the software, following > error occurred. > ... > 1) Primitive failed in: PlatformFunction>>#callWith:with:with:with:with:with: due to >Gen

jdk1.3/forte problem

2000-06-11 Thread noisebrain
I tried running the recent jdk1.3+hotspot downloaded from sun with forte community edition 1.0 v502. It has a problem whereby the jmenus pull down but then immediately disappear, so it is impossible to select any menu items. Any thoughts or suggestions on what to try? / thanks -

More on idlj

2000-06-11 Thread Brett W. McCoy
Now I feel rather foolish about my earlier question on idlj: the _Impl classes weren't generated because I didn't use the -fserver argument to the compiler. Doh! But all is well now... Brett W. McCoy http://www.chapelperilous

Re: Why nonblocking I/O in Java is hard

2000-06-11 Thread Matt Welsh
Dimitris Vyzovitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Isn't that a bit dangerous? Well - anything you do with native code in Java is inherently "dangerous". Obviously it's best to use native threads when doing this kind of thing, but I want compatibility with green threads in case people need tha

java Script

2000-06-11 Thread wangmq
Now i have a problem about javaScript. I want to abtain client browser width with javaScript, who has a good idea?