Re: permissions

1999-12-10 Thread Matthias Pfisterer

Hi,

it should be possible to determine this by trial-and-error. Remove that
AllPermissions and run your program. Watch out for the first
SecurityException. It usually can be derived from the error message
which permission is missing. Grant this permissen, then run you prg
again...

Matthias


Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> 
> Something else:
> 
> I modified my permissions and granted accept resolv listen connect for a
> specific client machine.  But that client machine still couldn't connect
> until I granted allpermissions.  So obviously there is more than
> socetpermission involved in rmi calls.  But what?
> 
> Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> 
> > All applications can listen on sockets on the localhost for ports 1024
> > and up.  In addition I gave all files on my machine to connect and
> > resolv on localhost. If I try to do a Naming.lookup() from another
> > machine it will succeed, even though I didn't give rmiregistry accept
> > permission for anything.  Calls to my rmi program fail from another
> > machine.  Calls from the localhost succeed though.
> >
> > My questions are:
> > 1) How come rmiregistry works when I didn't give it accept permission
> > for *any* machine, not even the localhost?
> > 2) How come my rmi program will accept calls from the localhost when I
> > didn't give it permission to accept from any machine?  And if it will
> > accept from the localhost, why not from other hosts?
> >
> > here is my java.policy:
> > /* AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED ON Thu Dec 09 21:47:50 EST 1999*/
> > /* DO NOT EDIT */
> >
> > grant codeBase "file:${java.home}/lib/ext/*" {
> > };
> >
> > grant {
> >   permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "stopThread";
> >   permission java.net.SocketPermission "localhost:1024-", "listen";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.version", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vendor", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vendor.url", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.class.version", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "os.name", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "os.version", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "os.arch", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "file.separator", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "path.separator", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "line.separator", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.specification.version",
> > "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.specification.vendor",
> > "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.specification.name",
> > "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission
> > "java.vm.specification.version", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission
> > "java.vm.specification.vendor", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vm.specification.name",
> > "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vm.version", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vm.vendor", "read";
> >   permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.vm.name", "read";
> > };
> >
> > grant codeBase "file://-" {
> >   permission java.io.FilePermission "<>", "read, write,
> > delete, execute";
> >   permission java.net.SocketPermission "localhost", "connect, resolve";
> > };
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Re: RC3 Matrix Benchmark

1999-12-10 Thread Uncle George

This is what I get back:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at voicenet.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Connected to 137.138.128.17 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 550 This domain is banned.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: (qmail 10490 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1999 08:09:39 -
Received: from dialpool0141-pri.voicenet.com (HELO voicenet.com) (209.71.85.41)
  by mail12.voicenet.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 1999 08:09:39 -
Sender: gat
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 02:06:40 -0500
From: Uncle George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Big-Endian
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Wolfgang HOSCHEK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RC3 Matrix Benchmark
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Ok, i'll try again.
how do u specifically run the programs?
gat

Wolfgang HOSCHEK wrote:

> Strange. How can I help? Please try again.
> Wolfgang. (I'll be away in 30 minutes.)
>
> Uncle George wrote:
> >
> > Any way to get in touch with this guy ? i keep getting Remote host said: 550 This 
>domain is banned.
> >
>
> -


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>
> Uncle George wrote:
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> > Any way to get in touch with this guy ? i keep getting Remote host said: 550 This 
>domain is banned.
> >
>
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libjava.so: cannot open shared object file

1999-12-10 Thread gerd


Hi *,

I have exactly the same problem as Arnaldo Riquelme Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999
(see Archive):

[muster@192 bin]$ pwd
/usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin
[muster@192 bin]$ javac
./java: error in loading shared libraries: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory

Unfortunately the answers in the Archive from PAX! Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999,
who wrote

I think your problem is not about paths. I use 1.1.6 release, and my
   libjava is in /usr/lib/jdk-1.1.6, so my JAVA_HOME and my JDKHOME
   variables point to that directory. Have you set these variables properly
   ?

did not work out and in README.linux is written:

That's it!  No CLASSPATH, no JAVA_HOME, or other environment variables to set
to get the basic system running.  It can be installed anywhere on your
machine, and it figures out whatever information it needs about where it was
installed automatically when it runs.
 
System Data:

I tried to install from CD

-rw-r--r--   2 root root 10546087 Mai 31 12:08 jdk-117_v1a-2.i386.rpm

Halloween III based on
RedHat 6.0 GPL

[muster@192 muster]$ uname -a
Linux 192.168.251.50 2.2.13 #2 Mon Nov 22 10:38:31 CET 1999 i686 unknown
[muster@192 linuxlibs]$ ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 Oct  5 11:34 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.1.1.so

[muster@192 linuxlibs]$ ls -l /lib/libdl.so.*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 Oct  5 11:38 /lib/libdl.so.1 -> 
libdl.so.1.9.5
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 5388 Mar 22  1999 /lib/libdl.so.1.9.5
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 Oct  5 11:34 /lib/libdl.so.2 -> 
libdl-2.1.1.so
[
Thank you very much for any useful comments!

Gerd


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Re: RC3 Matrix Benchmark

1999-12-10 Thread Wolfgang HOSCHEK

> Remote host said: 550 This domain is banned.

No idea what this is. (We're an org with >1000 people, receiving tons of
mail, we're certainly not a phantom). Anyway.

> Ok, i'll try again.
> how do u specifically run the programs?
> gat

That's not a very specific question, maybe being answered so:

By downloading colt.jar & matrixBenchmark.zip.
Decompressing and compiling the sources contained in the latter.
(http://nicewww.cern.ch/~hoschek/colt/V1.0Beta4/download/colt1.0b4.zip)
(http://nicewww.cern.ch/~hoschek/colt/V1.0Beta4/download/matrixBenchmark.zip)

Then as stated in 
(http://nicewww.cern.ch/~hoschek/colt/V1.0Beta4/doc/cern/colt/matrix/doc-files/PerformanceLogFrame.html)

java [-classic] -ms30m -mx60m cern.colt.benchmark.BenchmarkMatrix 2

The -classic is only necessary to switch off Hotspot on Hotspot enabled
VM's (Solaris,NT).

Wolfgang.


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another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Chris LeDantec

i'm in an interesting position, and as such i need to drop a disclaimer from
the get go bcs these are my views and not those of the company i work for...
(the necessary b.s. since i'm too lazy to get a hotmail account to post
from...)

everyone is jumping down sun's throat on this one, with good cause. but i
think what is being forgotten is that inprise is an equal partner in this
little game... what i see is a huge marketing push. maybe it wasn't
intentional (if it was, it's pretty ingeniously contemptible)...

inprise makes tools. they also partner with sun who just picked up two tools
companies and has bcm a competitor. this is an interesting scenario since
the owner of java technology is now a direct competitor with companies that
are close partners.  it would make sense, with a simple omission of fact in
an initial press-release, to create an air of suspicion around sun -- being
the bigger, more visible company they would of course take most of the heat
(not withstanding previously rocky relationships with developers and the
luke-warm reception of scsl).  inprise then, is in perfect position to speak
out to a grass-roots user base and say 'we worked on the port, but the way
sun handled the release was a travesty of community development' then after
some time passes: 'use our tool instead and show big company what's what.'

this of course maybe total conspiratal b.s., but on the same token, if the
folks at inprise don't use it to their advantage they're stupid...

i'm not out to beat a dead horse, but i just wanted to point out that
political and business aims are not always on par with the thought process
that goes on with projects like blackdown... when people see a cool
technology and decide to make an effort to bring that technology to a
broader audience simply for the purity of it (maybe i'm romanticizing the
intentions of the porting team) the motivation is 180 degrees from a company
who is out to make money.  regardless of the buzz words being thrown around,
big, rich companies all play by the same rules.

cL


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Re: Sun/Inprise/GPL Linux JDK

1999-12-10 Thread a b

A strong opinionated colleague of mine said the following:

> > RedHat have revenues of $10m -- and are capitalized on the NASDAQ 
> > at -- ready for this -- $20 billion -- they're worth one fifth of 
> > what Gates is worth.
> >
> > These guys should stop bleating and start demanding that RedHat 
> > recycle some of their ill-gotten gains.

I think he's got a good point though...

Mr A. Nony. Mouse


>  I was actually trying to make a reference to the fact that I have
>  not yet seen a mention of Red Hat in our discussions of who should 
>  be driving Java on Linux. Why is that?
>  
>  Jim
>  
>  
>  Tony Dean wrote:
>  > 
>  > Jim,
>  > 
>  > There is such an organization. Its called the Opensource movement. You
>  > only
>  > have to look as far as Linux to see the potential. Linux is more
>  > stable and generally
>  > performs better than Win NT and there is plenty of resources behind
>  > NT. look at Perl and
>  > gcc/g++ to see what can happen. The Opensource movement has more
>  > resources behind
>  > it than even the giants like IBM and AT&T.
>  > 
>  > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  > 
>  > > > ...
>  > > > But there's an awful lot of evidence that
>  > > > mounting a serious Java environment effort is not really possible
>  > > > without the financial resources to feed and clothe a small army of
>  > >
>  > > > full-time developers.
>  > > >
>  > > > Nathan
>  > >
>  > > If only there were a Linux organization/corporation with those kind
>  > > of
>  > > financial resources...
>  > >
>  > > Jim
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > > ==
>  > > ==
>  > > Jim Kimball
>  > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  > >
>  > > 
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>  > Linux: The choice of a GNU Generation!
>  > 
>  > 
>  
>  -- 
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About Chinese Fonts

1999-12-10 Thread Zhang Fan

Hi, All!

I need to display chinese character in java application on linux. I use
RedHat 6.0 and Blackdown JDK1.1.7. I want to know which local font
should I use. I have checked the font.properties file, it seems that it
use chinese font from Sun. But i tried, and it didn't work.

If anyone has the experiences of chinese on java, please help!

Thanks.

Regards,

Fan Zhang



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Re: Any EJB for Linux?

1999-12-10 Thread Steve Nguyen

We have been trying it in the wish of adding it as our valud-added service
but we found it abit dis-organized.

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Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: Any EJB for Linux?


> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Are there any EJB Server for Linux currently Available.
> >
>
> An excellent open source EJB server is JOnAS from Bullsoft.
> It's pure java and I use it on big Sun iron at work and on my wimpy
> laptop under linux.
>
> Check it out at www.bullsoft.com/ejb
>
> -mike
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Re: Sun/Inprise/GPL Linux JDK

1999-12-10 Thread Nelson Minar

>I was actually trying to make a reference to the fact that I have not
>yet seen a mention of Red Hat in our discussions of who should be
>driving Java on Linux. Why is that?

Or VA Linux? :-)

Sadly, I don't think many people at Red Hat care about Java. There's
this funny anti-Java sentiment in the Linux community, you see it a
lot on Slashdot. Part of it is free software purists vs. Sun licenses,
a position I can respect. Part of it is a bunch of people who like
hacking C code who aren't interested in friendly, slightly slower OO
languages.

But Red Hat is spending money left and right, developing a bunch of
different businesses at once. What's one more?

BTW, Red Hat recently acquired Cygnus, which has their own Java
environment. My feeling is that stuff is aimed more at the embedded
market, and we've yet to see what Red Hat will do with Cygnus'
embedded market.

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Re: J2EE for linux?

1999-12-10 Thread Ernst de Haan

"Kenneth Y.K. YOUNG" wrote:
> 
> Dear gentlemen,
> 
> Glad to hear about the release of J2SE for linux.
> Do u know what is the plan/status of a J2EE port for linux?

Check out the BullSoft site for the announcement of an Open Source J2EE
implementation:

   * http://www.bullsoft.com/ejb

Here's the announcement:

   * http://www.bullsoft.com/ejb/announce.htm

Ernst

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Is there parallel port support from java for linux ??

1999-12-10 Thread Syam_Kumar_Abburi




Hi friends,
I came to know from Java-Linux FAQ mail archives that, there is no parallel port
support in Java 1.1 for
Linux. In Jdk 1.2.2 for Linux it was not mentioned because comm api is not part
of core jdk ( i remember
i have read it ). When i looked at Java Comm for Linux web page it was mentioned
there that there is no
parallel port support  (i.e from native Linux code) from Java for Linux.  Can
any one update me on this?


regards,
syam



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Good job on 1.2.2RC*, comments

1999-12-10 Thread Michael Thome


Just wanted to say that I'm *really* pleased with 1.2.2RC2, and I'm
sure that the rest will be even better.  I've been running RC2 with
native threads on an SMP machine (2xPIII-500) with 2.3-series kernel
without a hitch - *very* nice.  Worth the wait, guys!

It appears that the whole blackdown/sun/inprise debacle really was a
case of multiple miscommunication - it is unfortunate, but such
problems often occur when organizations with such different goals and
restrictions interface.  I sure hope that everyone calms down and does 
the right thing by the others...  while there is plenty of blame to go
around, it just isn't productive.

Re: author credit vs the SCSL... There are two issues here: ownership
and credit.  While it is true that under the SCSL, Sun may *own*
derivative works, failure to cite the authors of such work is simple 
plagiarism.  It is intellectual dishonesty to claim authorship of
someone else's works, even if you own rights of distribution.  That
said, it appears that Sun has done a pretty reasonable job at
assigning due credit in their recent PRs.

-mik
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Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Michael Thome

> "Chris" == Chris LeDantec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...
> inprise makes tools. they also partner with sun who just picked up two tools
> companies and has bcm a competitor. this is an interesting scenario since
> the owner of java technology is now a direct competitor with companies that
> are close partners.  it would make sense, with a simple omission of fact in
> an initial press-release, to create an air of suspicion around sun -- being
> the bigger, more visible company they would of course take most of the heat
> (not withstanding previously rocky relationships with developers and the
> luke-warm reception of scsl).  inprise then, is in perfect position to speak
> out to a grass-roots user base and say 'we worked on the port, but the way
> sun handled the release was a travesty of community development' then after
> some time passes: 'use our tool instead and show big company what's what.'

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity."  (Hanlon's Razor?)

PR folks working for large organizations typically don't have two
clues to rub together - not only about techical details and
development politics, but also about what is really important.  I
wouldn't be surprised if Sun's and Inprise's PR people genuinely
thought that the Blackdown group consisted entirely of Sun employees
and paid ghostwriters.  

-mik 

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Retrieving data from mysql to an applet

1999-12-10 Thread AMH

Hi,

I have an applet which is suppose to display data from a MySQL database
to the web browser. This applet works fine with appletviewer but when I
run it in a browser it gives an error;

"Java.Sql.SQLException: cannot connect to mysql server on
localhost:3306. Is there a mysql server running.."

I use the following class and connection string:
String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/dbname";
Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver").newInstance();

I load the MySQL server by C:\mysql\bin\mysqld.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

Abjin


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Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Nicholas Wright

Fair point.  But if I were to be cynical, perish the thought, maybe Chris 
would prefer users not to go with JBuilder as it may hurt Netbean's 
popularity.

As NetBeans was a asset acquisition, does Sun still give NetBeans money to 
keep it up to date?

Nicholas
 
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> > "Chris" == Chris LeDantec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > ...
> > inprise makes tools. they also partner with sun who just picked up two 
tools
> > companies and has bcm a competitor. this is an interesting scenario 
since
> > the owner of java technology is now a direct competitor with companies 
that
> > are close partners.  it would make sense, with a simple omission of 
fact in
> > an initial press-release, to create an air of suspicion around sun -- 
being
> > the bigger, more visible company they would of course take most of the 
heat
> > (not withstanding previously rocky relationships with developers and 
the
> > luke-warm reception of scsl).  inprise then, is in perfect position to 
speak
> > out to a grass-roots user base and say 'we worked on the port, but the 
way
> > sun handled the release was a travesty of community development' then 
after
> > some time passes: 'use our tool instead and show big company what's 
what.'
> 
> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
> stupidity."  (Hanlon's Razor?)
> 
> PR folks working for large organizations typically don't have two
> clues to rub together - not only about techical details and
> development politics, but also about what is really important.  I
> wouldn't be surprised if Sun's and Inprise's PR people genuinely
> thought that the Blackdown group consisted entirely of Sun employees
> and paid ghostwriters.  
> 
> -mik 
> 
> -- 
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open source IBM

1999-12-10 Thread jknutson

Perhaps what people have been hearing is that IBM will make their Jikes
compiler open source?Apparently it will be in the developerWorks Open
Source arena.



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Re: Retrieving data from mysql to an applet

1999-12-10 Thread Nicholas Wright

Hi

It's *probably* due to Netscape thinking that "localhost" is the host the 
browser is running on.

Try using "getCodeBase().getHost()" instead.

Nicholas

> I have an applet which is suppose to display data from a MySQL database
> to the web browser. This applet works fine with appletviewer but when I
> run it in a browser it gives an error;
> 
> "Java.Sql.SQLException: cannot connect to mysql server on
> localhost:3306. Is there a mysql server running.."
> 
> I use the following class and connection string:
> String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/dbname";
> Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver").newInstance();
> 
> I load the MySQL server by C:\mysql\bin\mysqld.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
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Re: Good job on 1.2.2RC*, comments

1999-12-10 Thread Jacob Nikom

Hi Michael,

I would like to elaborate a bit about your comments:
ownership versus credit. I think there are some legal
issues here.

If you work for the company and you patented something, 
the company owns the patent, but you still own your name 
on the patent. Company cannot change it, otherwise the 
patent will be invalidated.

Sun owns the code, but I think they don't own the name of 
the person who produced that code. They cannot change it. 

I am not sure that Sun's community license and even GPL pay
enough attention to the name ownership. Otherwise, we would
not have "GNU/Linux" discussion, because both use GPL. Code 
released under the developer's name promotes the developer
and makes him/her more responsible for it.

Michael Young gave his IPO shares to some Linux developers years 
after they did their work. It created good precedent for Blackdown 
team. Who knows, may be McNealy is going to do something like that 
in the future?

Jacob Nikom


Michael Thome wrote:
> 
> Just wanted to say that I'm *really* pleased with 1.2.2RC2, and I'm
> sure that the rest will be even better.  I've been running RC2 with
> native threads on an SMP machine (2xPIII-500) with 2.3-series kernel
> without a hitch - *very* nice.  Worth the wait, guys!
> 
> It appears that the whole blackdown/sun/inprise debacle really was a
> case of multiple miscommunication - it is unfortunate, but such
> problems often occur when organizations with such different goals and
> restrictions interface.  I sure hope that everyone calms down and does
> the right thing by the others...  while there is plenty of blame to go
> around, it just isn't productive.
> 
> Re: author credit vs the SCSL... There are two issues here: ownership
> and credit.  While it is true that under the SCSL, Sun may *own*
> derivative works, failure to cite the authors of such work is simple
> plagiarism.  It is intellectual dishonesty to claim authorship of
> someone else's works, even if you own rights of distribution.  That
> said, it appears that Sun has done a pretty reasonable job at
> assigning due credit in their recent PRs.
> 
> -mik
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JDBC ODBC Servlets on JWS

1999-12-10 Thread Amit

i was attempting to use the JDBC ODBC driver along with Java Servlets
operating on a Java Web Server. I have been getting an error when
attempting to concurrently access the same servlet accessing a stored
procedure in Oracle 8 which i have not been
able to figure out. the details of the error message and log file have
been attached below.

Thanks

*Connection.close
2 Statement(s) to close
*Statement.close
Free statement (SQLFreeStmt), hStmt=126696504, fOption=1
deregistering Statement sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcCallableStatement@99ba8d7e

*Statement.close
Free statement (SQLFreeStmt), hStmt=126708608, fOption=1
deregistering Statement sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcStatement@9f228d7e
Disconnecting (SQLDisconnect), hDbc=9677232
Closing connection (SQLFreeConnect), hDbc=9677232
Closing environment (SQLFreeEnv), hEnv=9677104
ERROR - S1000 General error
java.sql.SQLException: General error
 at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.throwGenericSQLException(JdbcOdbc.java:4218)
 at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLFreeEnv(JdbcOdbc.java:1379)
 at
sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.closeConnection(JdbcOdbcDriver.java:833)
 at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcConnection.close(JdbcOdbcConnection.java:474)
 at Clock18.doGet(Compiled Code)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:715)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:840)
 at com.sun.server.ServletState.callService(ServletState.java:226)
 at
com.sun.server.ServletManager.callServletService(ServletManager.java:936)

 at
com.sun.server.http.servlet.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:137)

 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:840)
 at com.sun.server.ServletState.callService(ServletState.java:226)
 at
com.sun.server.ServletManager.callServletService(ServletManager.java:936)

 at
com.sun.server.ProcessingState.invokeTargetServlet(ProcessingState.java:423)

 at
com.sun.server.http.HttpProcessingState.execute(HttpProcessingState.java:79)

 at com.sun.server.http.stages.Runner.process(Runner.java:79)
 at com.sun.server.ProcessingSupport.process(Compiled Code)
 at com.sun.server.Service.process(Service.java:204)
 at
com.sun.server.http.HttpServiceHandler.handleRequest(HttpServiceHandler.java:374)

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Font problems(possible fix)

1999-12-10 Thread emirikol

If anyone of you were having problem with your fonts(dingbats not being
found) I noticed that if I took my font.properties from jdk1.2prev2 and
copied(I hope this is alright to do) and put them in my jdk1.2.2/jre/lib
directory and then renamed font.properties to font.properties.old.

Matt Brown


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Re: open source IBM

1999-12-10 Thread Jo Uthus

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| Perhaps what people have been hearing is that IBM will make their Jikes
| compiler open source?Apparently it will be in the developerWorks Open
| Source arena.

The jikes is already available with full sourcecode.


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Servlet+JSP engine

1999-12-10 Thread Claudio Miranda

Anyone hear about resin engine for servlet and jsp? Is it more quickly
than JServ?
Any comments about this is welcome

thanks 4 all

Claudio


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Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Mike Ajemian

> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
> stupidity."  (Hanlon's Razor?)

> PR folks working for large organizations typically don't have two
> clues to rub together - not only about techical details and
> development politics, but also about what is really important.  I
> wouldn't be surprised if Sun's and Inprise's PR people genuinely
> thought that the Blackdown group consisted entirely of Sun employees
> and paid ghostwriters.  

Hate to disagree with you, but PR folks worth their salt aren't called
"spin doctors" for nothing.  Microsoft and Sun have become the
behemoth's they are by putting together pr that represents the company
or their products in a very positive light and introduces doubt about
competitors or competing products.  I mean, Microsoft didn't get to be
big by writing the best software (anybody with me on that?).  They
used marketing and public relations to induce people to think that
Microsoft was way better than everybody else.  Good pr people don't
have to "get" tech, although it helps, they really have to know how to
position/represent the company or organization in a way that the
market desires, winning approval with consumer $$$ and market share.
Sounds a lot like politics to me, .

This whole scenario stinks bad to me.  Individuals that spend years
writing code don't deserve to have their code base passed on to
somebody else and forked.  I don't care how difficult communication
was, especially since it sounds like Sun wasn't all that helpful to
the blackdown team at critical times.  I actually think that's part of
the spin (ala Microsoft/Netcraft's assault on Linux, "nobody responded
to our postings" crap).  The community will suffer as 2 products that
should be on the same code base are now completely separate products
(which Inprise likely wants since it doesn't dilute their product with
an Inprise-Blackdown label.)

Bottom line is Inprise wants presence in the linux community and Sun
wants a greater Java presence.  I don't think they're going after the
current linux base, they're going after the converts to linux (a large
number that's growing fast) who aren't going to be familiar with or
even care about this issue.  I believe the decision was made pretty
high up to accept this as a reasonable loss, the blackdown piss-off,
and a greater gain vis-a-vis perception of a better, more stable jdk
from a commercial source.  Like Linux and RedHat.  "The market" is
validating Linux because a commercial company is behind it.

My .02, fwiw.

cheers,
Mike


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Re: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file

1999-12-10 Thread Emmanuel Papirakis

> /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin
> [muster@192 bin]$ javac
> ./java: error in loading shared libraries:
> libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory

Hello,

I agree with you when you say that the CLASSPATH and
the JAVA_HOME variables are now obsolete. BUT, you
still must either put your libjava.so in a directory
that is either in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, or in
/etc/ld.so.conf.

If you want to keep your libjava.so where it is now,
you must add the directory to you LD_LIBRARY_PATH
variable, or to /etc/ld.so.conf and (as root) typy the
command /sbin/ldconfig.

As you may know, dynamic libraries must be located by
the kernel by a mechanism of some sort and these 2 are
the ones I am familiar with.

Hope this helps...
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Re: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file

1999-12-10 Thread Juergen Kreileder

> Emmanuel Papirakis writes:

>> /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin
>> [muster@192 bin]$ javac
>> ./java: error in loading shared libraries:
>> libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
>> file or directory

Emmanuel>   I agree with you when you say that the CLASSPATH and
Emmanuel> the JAVA_HOME variables are now obsolete. BUT, you
Emmanuel> still must either put your libjava.so in a directory
Emmanuel> that is either in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, or in
Emmanuel> /etc/ld.so.conf.

Emmanuel>   If you want to keep your libjava.so where it is now,
Emmanuel> you must add the directory to you LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Emmanuel> variable, or to /etc/ld.so.conf and (as root) typy the
Emmanuel> command /sbin/ldconfig.

No this isn't necessary, the java wrapper script sets up
LD_LIBRARY_PATH properly itself.

libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  ^
This colon indicates that libjava.so actually has been found.  But a
library libjava.so depends couldn't be found.  In most cases this
means that the glibc version doesn't match the JDK version.

This command should show what exactly was missing:

$ DEBUG_PROG=ldd java


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Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Paolo Ciccone

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:43:47PM -0500, Mike Ajemian wrote:

> to our postings" crap).  The community will suffer as 2 products that
> should be on the same code base are now completely separate products
> (which Inprise likely wants since it doesn't dilute their product with
> an Inprise-Blackdown label.)

Sorry to disappoint your "conspiracy" theory, I really mean it in a
good way, but we really don't care who provides the JDK. If Blackdown
tomorrow shows a JDK that outperform ours we will be happy like hell,
it will make JBuilder and JDataStore run faster. Great ! Same thing if
it comes from Sun or IBM. 

As anybody can immagine having to port the JDK is a big PITA
especially since we had to do that while working on other two projects
(JBuilder Solaris and JBuilder Foundation). We literally spent the
nights in the Borland Campus. 
 
> Bottom line is Inprise wants presence in the linux community and Sun
> wants a greater Java presence.  I don't think they're going after the
> current linux base, they're going after the converts to linux (a large
> number that's growing fast) who aren't going to be familiar with or
> even care about this issue. 

Wrong again, we believe we have something that can improve the
experience of the developers on Linux and on other platforms as well.

The thing that is funny for me is that you, and other people on this
list, refer to who works in Inprise or other companies like we are not
part of the Linux community. I still have the Slackware 0.99 disks and
the same is for many of us in the Borland campus. Linux is exciting
for us and we have people that rooted for it for years, me being one
of them. Sure we work for a commercial company, does it make us
"bad". I don't think so, let us contribute to this community, we are
doing our best and you'll judge if it's worth your attention and money
or not. In the case of JBuilder Foundation, as you ca see, we are
giving it away for free.


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Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Nathan Meyers

Paolo Ciccone wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:43:47PM -0500, Mike Ajemian wrote:
> 
> > to our postings" crap).  The community will suffer as 2 products that
> > should be on the same code base are now completely separate products
> > (which Inprise likely wants since it doesn't dilute their product with
> > an Inprise-Blackdown label.)
> 
> Sorry to disappoint your "conspiracy" theory, I really mean it in a
> good way, but we really don't care who provides the JDK. If Blackdown
> tomorrow shows a JDK that outperform ours we will be happy like hell,
> it will make JBuilder and JDataStore run faster. Great ! Same thing if
> it comes from Sun or IBM.


I'd like to add, as one who has no connection with Inprise or Sun, that
I continue to be astounded at accusations like this. There's a real
simple story here: Inprise had a critical business need, they approached
Blackdown about collaboration (that's called "due diligence"), Blackdown
didn't return their calls, so Inprise did some work on its own. I don't
understand the need to explain what happened with complicated conspiracy
theories.

Let's consider an alternate theory. Why has Blackdown visibility been
poor? Why did they fail to respond to Inprise? It's obvious! Blackdown
wants to own the Java/Linux franchise and make its members fantastically
wealthy on a Blackdown IPO. Ridiculous? Of course. But it makes as much
sense as some of the other theories flying around.

Another insight to consider: Linux is hot! Everything having to do with
Linux is hot. Why in the world would organizations like Sun or Inprise
make any effort to repudiate the Linux community? When Sun failed to
acknowledge Blackdown in its PR, it screwed up. In fact, it screwed up
even more by not making a *big deal* of the Blackdown connection. It is
a PLUS, not a MINUS, to associate your name with the Linux community,
and these bizarre and complicated explanations of why Sun and Inprise
would want to hide that connection just don't wash.

Finally, consider that the proof is in the pudding. What has come out of
this horrific conspiracy? Well, for the first time, Linux users have a
JDK with a working JPDA, and a JIT that's faster and better than the
long-broken sunwjit. And what do you have to pay to use this new JDK?
Nothing.

So what happens next? Let's see, Inprise has a working JPDA and a great
JIT, and Blackdown has solved the native threading problems. Maybe it's
time to move past the accusations and conspiracy theories and start to
explore how to work together. We'll all benefit from it.


Nathan


> 
> As anybody can immagine having to port the JDK is a big PITA
> especially since we had to do that while working on other two projects
> (JBuilder Solaris and JBuilder Foundation). We literally spent the
> nights in the Borland Campus.
> 
> > Bottom line is Inprise wants presence in the linux community and Sun
> > wants a greater Java presence.  I don't think they're going after the
> > current linux base, they're going after the converts to linux (a large
> > number that's growing fast) who aren't going to be familiar with or
> > even care about this issue.
> 
> Wrong again, we believe we have something that can improve the
> experience of the developers on Linux and on other platforms as well.
> 
> The thing that is funny for me is that you, and other people on this
> list, refer to who works in Inprise or other companies like we are not
> part of the Linux community. I still have the Slackware 0.99 disks and
> the same is for many of us in the Borland campus. Linux is exciting
> for us and we have people that rooted for it for years, me being one
> of them. Sure we work for a commercial company, does it make us
> "bad". I don't think so, let us contribute to this community, we are
> doing our best and you'll judge if it's worth your attention and money
> or not. In the case of JBuilder Foundation, as you ca see, we are
> giving it away for free.
> 
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JDK 1.1.8-v1 files on mirrors

1999-12-10 Thread Scott Murray

It seems that the Intel version of the Blackdown JDK 1.1.8 has been
released, as I noticed an i386 directory in JDK-1.1.8 tonight.  I've
been unable to run it just yet here at home, as I'm still running a
stock RedHat 6.0, but I've noticed the following two glitches so far:

- the files are .bz instead of .bz2, so I had to rename them before
  bunzip2 would uncompress them.
- the jre118_v1 package seems to be missing the native_threads directories,
  although the jdk118_v1 package has them.

Scott


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Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Ted Neward

I thoroughly agree with Nathan's assessment--it makes no sense to believe
that Sun and/or Inprise somehow *want* this bad publicity. Quite frankly,
given the nature of the lack of responsiveness of the Blackdown team
themselves (no offense, guys, but this is simply personal observation) to
various postings on this list (including one of my own, some time back)
offering to help fix some bug or another, I'm fully ready to believe the
"there was no response" story--it reeks with credibility.

Simply pointing fingers and creating conspiracy theories does nothing to
advance our position as Linux/Java users. This is the wonderful thing about
the capitalist system--if you don't care for Sun's or Inprise's attitude
towards us, or any other community, stop using their products. Use a
competitor's, and encourage your friends to do so, as well. In time, if
enough people agree with you, then either the commercial company will change
their attitude, or else they will go bankrupt and die. It's far more likely
that they'll do some sort of adjustment to their policies before allowing
themselves to go under--witness what's going on with the tobacco companies
in this country, as evidence.

For my money, I'll download the Inprise product (I have a particular beef
with Borland as a company--why'd you kill OWL just before my OWL books came
out?--but that's neither here nor there), evaluate it, and see if it works
for me. If the Blackdown port is better, great. If the Inprise port is
better, great. If I do my own port, and I prefer that, instead, great.
Whatever solution solves the problem, is what works for me.

Ted Neward
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http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward

-Original Message-
From: Nathan Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Paolo Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Mike Ajemian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, December 10, 1999 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.


>Paolo Ciccone wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:43:47PM -0500, Mike Ajemian wrote:
>>
>> > to our postings" crap).  The community will suffer as 2 products that
>> > should be on the same code base are now completely separate products
>> > (which Inprise likely wants since it doesn't dilute their product with
>> > an Inprise-Blackdown label.)
>>
>> Sorry to disappoint your "conspiracy" theory, I really mean it in a
>> good way, but we really don't care who provides the JDK. If Blackdown
>> tomorrow shows a JDK that outperform ours we will be happy like hell,
>> it will make JBuilder and JDataStore run faster. Great ! Same thing if
>> it comes from Sun or IBM.
>
>
>I'd like to add, as one who has no connection with Inprise or Sun, that
>I continue to be astounded at accusations like this. There's a real
>simple story here: Inprise had a critical business need, they approached
>Blackdown about collaboration (that's called "due diligence"), Blackdown
>didn't return their calls, so Inprise did some work on its own. I don't
>understand the need to explain what happened with complicated conspiracy
>theories.
>
>Let's consider an alternate theory. Why has Blackdown visibility been
>poor? Why did they fail to respond to Inprise? It's obvious! Blackdown
>wants to own the Java/Linux franchise and make its members fantastically
>wealthy on a Blackdown IPO. Ridiculous? Of course. But it makes as much
>sense as some of the other theories flying around.
>
>Another insight to consider: Linux is hot! Everything having to do with
>Linux is hot. Why in the world would organizations like Sun or Inprise
>make any effort to repudiate the Linux community? When Sun failed to
>acknowledge Blackdown in its PR, it screwed up. In fact, it screwed up
>even more by not making a *big deal* of the Blackdown connection. It is
>a PLUS, not a MINUS, to associate your name with the Linux community,
>and these bizarre and complicated explanations of why Sun and Inprise
>would want to hide that connection just don't wash.
>
>Finally, consider that the proof is in the pudding. What has come out of
>this horrific conspiracy? Well, for the first time, Linux users have a
>JDK with a working JPDA, and a JIT that's faster and better than the
>long-broken sunwjit. And what do you have to pay to use this new JDK?
>Nothing.
>
>So what happens next? Let's see, Inprise has a working JPDA and a great
>JIT, and Blackdown has solved the native threading problems. Maybe it's
>time to move past the accusations and conspiracy theories and start to
>explore how to work together. We'll all benefit from it.
>
>
>Nathan
>
>
>>
>> As anybody can immagine having to port the JDK is a big PITA
>> especially since we had to do that while working on other two projects
>> (JBuilder Solaris and JBuilder Foundation). We literally spent the
>> nights in the Borland Campus.
>>
>> > Bottom line is Inprise wants presence in the 

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Mike Ajemian

Don't believe I mentioned the word conspiracy or even tried to
represent any argument as such.  Amazed at how the responses have
represented the "crackpot" perspective so quickly.  I don't believe
Sun and Inprise conspired to block blackdown out.  I think Inprise
wants it's own presence for its own jdk.  Period.  They made a
business decision to "roll their own" rather than pursue a
collaborative relationship with the individuals who had written the
code that Inprise was basing their jdk upon.  Not Inprise-blackdown,
but Inprise.  Simply that Inprise doesn't want to dilute their brand,
especially with the market, which might view an association with
blackdown as a liability (being composed of, as you stated in an
earlier posting, "volunteers".)

To strengthen this argument, look at the perception of the public to a
little company named RedHat.  They went from giving away software, to
charging for free software.  The public went from skeptical when the
software was free, to supportive/enthusiastic/euphoric when the
software cost money and they offered a plan to support the software.
Blackdown gives away software and is viewed as a collective of
hobbyists.  That's bad from the financial and business perspective
where the question invariably is raised as to "who will support the
software when we need a fix and the person that wrote the code is one
of the hobbyists".  I don't think Inprise wanted to ever have to field
that question.  I could be wrong, but if I am, I'd like to know why.

My opinions are based on years of working in the industry and being
involved in discussions involving brand representation and issues of
brand dilution.  To me, Inprise had no incentive to involve blackdown
in their release, so they didn't involve blackdown.  If my opinions
are wrong, I'm more than happy to admit it and learn from my
mistake(s).  Just somebody point out the facts so I can understand.
But calling my arguments or the arguments of others "conspiracy
theory" does nothing to further discussion on the matters at hand.

> The thing that is funny for me is that you, and other people on this
> list, refer to who works in Inprise or other companies like we are not
> part of the Linux community.

Never said you weren't part of the linux community.  My raising issue
with you means that you're a peer in this community.  If I felt
otherwise I would let you know directly.

Would appreciate it if you would consider addressing my main point,
which is that fracturing the development efforts is divisive and in
the long run potentially more harmful to the future of java on Linux.
You have an opinion on that, I'd like to hear it.  To me, the prospect
of collaboration was worth more than a couple of phone calls.

cheers,
Mike




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