[eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Rob Hudson
What's a good JDK to install on Linux? I think there are different varieties (Sun's JDK, IBM's Kaffe?, etc.) I was looking at installing NewsMonster, a mozilla based blog reader, but it requires a JDK. http://newsmonster.org/ Thanks, Rob ___ EuG-LUG

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Horst
My overview is limited, but I know that a larger developer I worked for for over a year used Sun's JDK / JRE (basically as THE reference) From my own experience, I did some tests with Jython, cross compiling some python code to java classes, and then running those on different JVMs: the Kaffe

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:39:56AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: What's a good JDK to install on Linux? I think there are different varieties (Sun's JDK, IBM's Kaffe?, etc.) I was looking at installing NewsMonster, a mozilla based blog reader, but it requires a JDK. http://newsmonster.org/

Re: [[eug-lug]java]

2003-06-25 Thread michael white
I'm running sun's java 1.4.1_02 which seems to be fine. Slashdot ran a story in the last couple of days stating that Redhat is planning on developing a os java implimentation. Michael. Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's a good JDK to install on Linux? I think there are different

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Ben Barrett
Yes, I'd suggest going to Sun. I'm not sure if you currently have to register to get the JDK; it was that way a while back... the latest and greatest linux ports of the Sun JDK used to come from blackdown IIRC Here is a link to their mirrors list: http://blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Rob Hudson
Thanks for the replies. It seemed I had a java install from a previous chunk of java XML something or other I was playing with. That got me as far as compiling newsmonster, which uses Ant instead of a Makefile. Now that I have a .xpi file and tell Mozilla to install it. When I restart, it

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Ralph Zeller
put a link in your mozilla plug-in directory, something like: cd /usr/local/mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_02/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so . delete any other java plugins in your mozilla plug-in directory. On 06/25/03 02pm, Rob Hudson wrote: Thanks for the replies. It

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Rob Hudson
I've done that. If I check Help-About plugins it doesn't show up there. Should it? On 20030625.1636, Ralph Zeller said ... put a link in your mozilla plug-in directory, something like: cd /usr/local/mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_02/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Ralph Zeller
Yes. Can you run other java programs? Can you run `java` and `javac` from your shell? On 06/25/03 04pm, Rob Hudson wrote: I've done that. If I check Help-About plugins it doesn't show up there. Should it? On 20030625.1636, Ralph Zeller said ... put a link in your mozilla plug-in

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Mr O
*(ships with gentoo)* ROFLMAO. Mr O. --- Cory Petkovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used the jdk/jre from sun, and the jre from blackdown.org (ships with gentoo). Either's fine. Don't get the MS Java VM though. ___

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Bob Crandell
Speaking of gentoo, What was the model of that Intel motherboard we were talking about? Mr O ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: *(ships with gentoo)* ROFLMAO. Mr O. --- Cory Petkovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used the jdk/jre from sun, and the jre from blackdown.org (ships with gentoo).