Congratulations to Blackdown!

1998-12-07 Thread Pierre LATECOERE
Congratulations to Blackdown! Thanks to your JDK, porting my Java program from Windows to Linux was more than easy. I have just finished porting a Java program to Linux using blackdown 116. The result is excellent! The program was originally developed under INPRISE JBuilder 2.01 on Win NT4. (www.

Sorry..how to

1998-12-07 Thread Rudhuwan Abu Bakar
sorry I have been trying to get off the list.I am going for a leave ,so I don't to get my box clustered by email.I have sent to an admin site,still I cannot get unsubscribed from the list.Hope somebody pls put me off the list temporarily. thanks and sorry regards duan

Re: How to do a thread dump from program?

1998-12-07 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Mario Camou writes: Mario> Juergen Kreileder wrote: >> > Mario Camou writes: >> Mario> Hi, Mario> I'm having some problems with threads, so I need to do a Mario> thread dump (same thing that Ctrl-\ does) but from within Mario> the program (i.e., I catch an

Re: How to do a thread dump from program?

1998-12-07 Thread Mario Camou
Juergen, Thanx for the quick response. See below Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > Mario Camou writes: > > Mario> Hi, > Mario> I'm having some problems with threads, so I need to do a > Mario> thread dump (same thing that Ctrl-\ does) but from within > Mario> the program (i.e., I

Re: How to do a thread dump from program?

1998-12-07 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Mario Camou writes: Mario> Hi, Mario> I'm having some problems with threads, so I need to do a Mario> thread dump (same thing that Ctrl-\ does) but from within Mario> the program (i.e., I catch an Exception and want to do a Mario> thread dump that moment). Does anyone he

How to do a thread dump from program?

1998-12-07 Thread Mario Camou
Hi, I'm having some problems with threads, so I need to do a thread dump (same thing that Ctrl-\ does) but from within the program (i.e., I catch an Exception and want to do a thread dump that moment). Does anyone here know how to do that? Basically, I'm getting an "IllegalMonitorStateException:

Repaint problems with JList/JScrollPane/JSplitPane

1998-12-07 Thread Trieu Dang
Hi, My application uses a JSplitPane in which the top and bottom components are JScrollPane. The bottom scrollpane contains a JList. My list changes depending on the user's actions so I have to use setListData, which must be followed by repaint(), otherwise the data wouldn't change. e.g. myList.s

Re: BUG in java.awt.List

1998-12-07 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Nestor A Diaz L writes: Nestor> Hi, i find a bug in the java.awt.List, when i remove an Nestor> item from the list, the List doesn't refresh apropiatelly, Nestor> and the item persist appearing, in windows this doesn't Nestor> have that behavior. What JDK version? With 1.

Re: Jikes released as Open Source

1998-12-07 Thread Maksim Lin
Truely excellant news! I've been using jikes for a while now and have been very impressed by its speed (even when the incremental compile option was disabled), but have been worried that IBM might decide to junk it, sell it for huge amounts of money, etc. Now with this annnouncement, jikes is de

BUG in java.awt.List

1998-12-07 Thread Nestor A. Diaz L.
Hi, i find a bug in the java.awt.List, when i remove an item from the list, the List doesn't refresh apropiatelly, and the item persist appearing, in windows this doesn't have that behavior. p.d. i send you the main application that show a frame with the list and tries to remove an item selected

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Robert McConnell
At 12:06 PM 12/7/98 -0600, Justin Lee wrote: >Ernst de Haan wrote: > >> >> What is the idea of Java? Portable code. If that part of Java will be >> removed, the Java Platform idea is dead, what remains is the Java >> programming language, with a modified API (ClassLoader etc). Downward >> compatib

Re: bison/java ?

1998-12-07 Thread shieldsd
The Jikes Parser Generator, available in binary form form alphaworks.ibm.com/formula/jikespg, handles all conventional grammar forms and can generate output in Java, suitable for use with a parser written in Java. We are working on makeing it Open Source. We know more (there is none now!) documen

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
Sorry for continuing this fairly off-topic thread, but IMHO it has some relevance to the use of Java on Linux (if even a little :-) The full text of the patent can be accessed under the following URL: http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/n etahtml/srchnu

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Java News Collector
At 10:21 AM 12/7/98 -0800, David Wall wrote: >>What is the idea of Java? Portable code. > >If that's all they claim, they will lose, since portable code has existed >long before their patent. Now, portable code inside web browser may be >different, though some might argue that HTML itself is code

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Java News Collector
At 12:06 PM 12/7/98 -0600, Justin Lee wrote: >Ernst de Haan wrote: --- snip --- >Yet, surely the concept of portable code can't be contained within that patent. >Portable, interpreted code has been around far longer than that patent. For an >example, pick any form of BASIC. Isn't Java just anothe

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Java News Collector
At 01:07 PM 12/7/98 +0100, you wrote: >Found a link to this article on JavaLobby: > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981203.html > >Could turn out bad. Very bad. > I read the abstract of this patent. I'm going to order a copy of the full patent because, IMHO, the patent abstract doe

Re: bison/java ?

1998-12-07 Thread Paolo Ciccone
> "AB" == Artur Biesiadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> Is there any compiler-compiler available for java that takes AB> bison-like grammar as input ? I don't think only about same AB> type of grammar, but exactly same definitions (of course AB> without action bodies).

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Anthony Rossini
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Justin Lee wrote: > Ernst de Haan wrote: > > > > > What is the idea of Java? Portable code. If that part of Java will be > > removed, the Java Platform idea is dead, what remains is the Java > > programming language, with a modified API (ClassLoader etc). Downward > > compati

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Matt Welsh
Ernst de Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Found a link to this article on JavaLobby: > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981203.html > > Could turn out bad. Very bad. Unless it turns out that the patent is ill-founded because Java represents "prior art" in terms of the technolog

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread David Wall
>What is the idea of Java? Portable code. If that's all they claim, they will lose, since portable code has existed long before their patent. Now, portable code inside web browser may be different, though some might argue that HTML itself is code that executes inside a browser, so again, such pa

Jikes released as Open Source

1998-12-07 Thread Nelson Minar
I'm happy to spread the news that IBM has released Jikes as open source. We Java/Linux folks have been happy to have Jikes as a fast, correct drop-in for javac under Linux. Now, IBM and the Jikes team have released the sources to Jikes as well, allowing us to look at and improve the compiler. The

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Justin Lee
Ernst de Haan wrote: > > What is the idea of Java? Portable code. If that part of Java will be > removed, the Java Platform idea is dead, what remains is the Java > programming language, with a modified API (ClassLoader etc). Downward > compatiblity nil. > > Take a look at the future-oriented API

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Ernst de Haan
Jaco Greeff wrote: > > > Found a link to this article on JavaLobby: > > > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981203.html > > > > Could turn out bad. Very bad. > > Maybe in a certain sense, but remember that Java is not only used in > Web-wide applets, also applications. (Which is wha

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Ernst de Haan
Christopher Hinds wrote: > > So What? Ever heard of a spreadsheet product called Visicalc. Visicalc > ran > on CPM OS( Late 70s early 80s). The company( the name excapes me ) that > developed Visicalc held the patent on the spreadsheet type GUI's also. > Then along came Lotus 1.2.3 , MuliPlan ,

Re: JDK 1.2 bogus license terms

1998-12-07 Thread Alexander V. Konstantinou
Apparently there will be changes in the license soon : http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,375508,00.html Alexander On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 11:34:54PM -0800, Matt Welsh wrote: > > JDK 1.2 is out, and the license (http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/LICENSE) > contains the

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Christopher Hinds
So What? Ever heard of a spreadsheet product called Visicalc. Visicalc ran on CPM OS( Late 70s early 80s). The company( the name excapes me ) that developed Visicalc held the patent on the spreadsheet type GUI's also. Then along came Lotus 1.2.3 , MuliPlan , and even MS Excel. I have not seen an

RE: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 07-Dec-98 Jaco Greeff wrote: > > Found a link to this article on JavaLobby: > > > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981203.html > > > > Could turn out bad. Very bad. > > Maybe in a certain sense, but remember that Java is not only used in > Web-wide applets, also application

Re: bison/java ?

1998-12-07 Thread jp
Is there any compiler-compiler available for java that takes bison-like > grammar Look at JavaCC, available from Sun someplace. There is a collection of grammars available at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dongwon/JavaCC. There is a bit of a tutorial at http://www.almide.demon.co.uk/source_code/jav

Re: JDK 1.2 bogus license terms

1998-12-07 Thread Joel Shellman
Matt Welsh wrote: > > JDK 1.2 is out, and the license (http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/LICENSE) > contains the following language: > > > You may not publish or provide the results of any benchmark or comparison > > tests run on Software to any third party without the prior written consent >

RE: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Jaco Greeff
> Found a link to this article on JavaLobby: > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981203.html > > Could turn out bad. Very bad. Maybe in a certain sense, but remember that Java is not only used in Web-wide applets, also applications. (Which is what I mainly use Java for.) For the ap

[FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-07 Thread Ernst de Haan
Found a link to this article on JavaLobby: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981203.html Could turn out bad. Very bad. -- _ | "Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I | | will give you rest."

to uncle

1998-12-07 Thread optima
I am a linux and java fan .And I like the uncles of blackdown .What can I do for our blackdown.

JDK 1.2 bogus license terms

1998-12-07 Thread Matt Welsh
JDK 1.2 is out, and the license (http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/LICENSE) contains the following language: > You may not publish or provide the results of any benchmark or comparison > tests run on Software to any third party without the prior written consent > of Sun. This is clearly a

Unidentified subject!

1998-12-07 Thread Ramesh Babu A.
Hi, My friend told that Javac - compiler is written java language. How it is possible to write first version of javac compiler in java before java language came ? If anybody know pls mail to me. Thanks in advance.