Re: what tools do you use for programming

1998-12-08 Thread Peter O Ludke
SuSE sells a Linux port of Suns Java Workshop development environment for about $100 US . It's the best Java IDE I've seen for Linux. The CD comes with Solaris and Windows executables and they include a diskette with a patch to create a Linux version. Unfortunately the debugger does not yet wor

RE: what tools do you use for programming

1998-12-08 Thread Scott Capper
For an ide for java have a look at netbeans at www.netbeans.com -Original Message- From: Eve & Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 9 December 1998 3:01 To: Helge Hielscher Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: what tools do you use for programming Helg

Re: Yet another jdk 1.2 when question

1998-12-08 Thread Jason Hoffman
The Javasoft representative I questioned today had this response: Kevin Goode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The Linux port of the Java 2 platform is being handled in conjuction with a 3rd >party vendor, we will notify you as soon as we have an exact date for the >release. > >Regards, >Kevin Goode

Re: Maximum Heap Size

1998-12-08 Thread Robert Ritchy
I don't know if this has been mentioned but we developed a multi-threaded app and had OutOfMemoryError problems similiar to yours. The culprit was the 1.1.5 jdk (had thread memory leak problems). After upgrading the jdk our problems went away. Robert Mehrdad Jahansoozi wrote: > This is usual

Re: Important: Java 1.2 licencing changes

1998-12-08 Thread Robert McConnell
Did you check your browser's cache to see if there were copies there? I did see something about this while I was looking at InfoWorld Online this afternoon. Aparently the announcement was made at some conference this afternoon and the new package will be released next week. Cheers, Bob McConnell

Yet another jdk 1.2 when question

1998-12-08 Thread Eoin O'Toole
Sorry to bother you, but I looked on Sun, Blackdown and dejanews sites for this info, to no avail.   I could _really_ do with a _rough_ outline of when to expect 1.2 on Linux. Also, is it possible to get an early access version to tinker with?   I understand scheduling these things is very

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-08 Thread Robert McConnell
At 10:56 AM 12/8/98 +0100, Alex Pozgaj wrote: >Java News Collector wrote: >> >> 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 arou

Re: Congratulations to Blackdown!

1998-12-08 Thread Robert McConnell
Pierre, Is there any way that you can quantify "faster" and "more stable" for us? I would love to be able to show my manager some real world differences between Linux and Windows. Thanks, Bob McConnell N2SPP At 05:19 AM 12/8/98 +0100, Pierre LATECOERE wrote: >Congratulations to Blackdown! Thank

RE: Patents

1998-12-08 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 08-Dec-98 Ray Racine wrote: > One thing and one thing only matters and that is the CLAIMS section of > the patent which is usually at the end of the patent. YOU BEAT A PATENT > BY GETTING AROUND THE CLAIMS. Thanks for the information, Ray (and congrats on the patent(s) :-) I did read thr

Netbeans wit JIT

1998-12-08 Thread Nicolas Meng
Hi, I'm using Netbeans IDE 2.0 with my Pentium 200 and it's very very slow. Now I want to speed up it, with a just-in-time-compiler. So, I tried TYA, which is very unofficial, but it didn't work with Netbeans. So, my question is: Do you know any JIT-Compilers for Linux, which are stable and are

Re: what tools do you use for programming

1998-12-08 Thread David Warnock
Helge, > what tools do you use for *efficient* programming in Java? I use VisualSlick Edit as my editor/IDE (I can compile, run etc from within it). I use Jikes for compiling. Dubugging is not very ideal we simply use a debug class of our own which also handles asserts. I do not use and do

Debian 2.1 "slink"/JDK117v1a+native

1998-12-08 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
I am currently tracking this as Bug#30427 with Debian. However, it might be possible (short of a dumb mistake on my part) that there is also a JDK problem in the DLL loading/libc6 (libc_nonshared.a) handling hidden here. You get half a dozen files, as http://www.netaccess.ie/~bk/statest.tgz Mo

Re: Maximum Heap Size

1998-12-08 Thread Mehrdad Jahansoozi
This is usual in multithreaded programs There are two solutions to these sorts of problems 1) Limit the number of threads to 5 at any time. 2) Write the data on a temporary files and read it later. Which one is a mater of time ( speed ). If you are reading over a network, pipe the data directly

Patents

1998-12-08 Thread Ray Racine
I am not a patent expert by any means, however, I do have one, very modest patent [#5,445,184] that I wrote myself and have two more pending which I also wrote. Several people have been referring to snippets from the Eolas patent and drawing conclusions from these fragments. A patent is a very f

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-08 Thread Dimitris Vyzovitis
John Summerfield wrote: > > > miscrosoft (mbasic) did. > cbasic did. > Natural & Adacom did it in 1980. > Hope that sun won't do the same with j... The only true safety for us would be to make java opesource . I have a somewhat theoretical question on this subject. What if java really does viola

Re: Maximum Heap Size

1998-12-08 Thread Dimitris Vyzovitis
> I am running into a problem where my vm grows too big, to fast (faster than the > consumers of the collected data can consume it), resulting in a > OutOfMemoryError in all running threads. I changed the vm to run with -mx50m > and it ran for much longer (about 5 days) then it too did the same t

Re: what tools do you use for programming

1998-12-08 Thread Eve & Richard
Helge Hielscher wrote: > Hello, > > what tools do you use for *efficient* programming in Java? I have been > looking around for a while, the only things I've found was FreeBuilder, > but that programm seemed to be still alpha, with no progress in work. I > tried to subscribe to the mailing list

Re: what tools do you use for programming

1998-12-08 Thread Mario Camou
Helge Hielscher wrote: > Hello, > > what tools do you use for *efficient* programming in Java? I have been > looking around for a while, the only things I've found was FreeBuilder, > but that programm seemed to be still alpha, with no progress in work. I > tried to subscribe to the mailing list,

Re: How to do a thread dump from program?

1998-12-08 Thread zun
On 8 Dec 1998, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > Mario Camou writes: > Mario> public class Foo { > Mario> private Vector data; > > Mario> public Vector getData() { > Mario> if (data == null) { > Mario> return null; > Mario> } > Mario> synchronized

Re: what tools do you use for programming

1998-12-08 Thread Ninja
Helge Hielscher wrote: > > Hello, > > what tools do you use for *efficient* programming in Java? I have been > looking around for a while, the only things I've found was FreeBuilder, > but that programm seemed to be still alpha, with no progress in work. I > tried to subscribe to the mailing lis

Re: How to do a thread dump from program?

1998-12-08 Thread Mario Camou
Juergen, Thanx! Now I get it...either synchronized(this) OR data.notifyAll()/data.wait(). I had my monitors mixed up :) Now if there was only a way to get that thread dump...not for THIS problem, but it might come in handy sometime. -Mario. Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > Mario Camou write

Re: Overloaded Constructor !!!

1998-12-08 Thread Carl Hewitt
the constructor definition is its return type (because the name of the constructor must be the same as the class) carl -Original Message- From: Ramesh Babu A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 11:42 PM Subject: Overloaded Constr

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-08 Thread Nelson Minar
>miscrosoft (mbasic) did. >cbasic did. even Applesoft BASIC did it Let's do it, let's byte-compile our files! Nelson, musical. [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . .. . . . http://www.media.mit.edu/~nelson/

Good article

1998-12-08 Thread 1a8
"Sun to open up its Java standards process" http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19981207S0033 Mark

Re: Sorry..how to

1998-12-08 Thread K.R. Foley
Rudhuwan Abu Bakar wrote: > 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

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-08 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Alex Pozgaj wrote: > > Just a minor nit-pick: not every implementation did that. > > Let me guess... you too are comming from the Sinclair world, aren't you? miscrosoft (mbasic) did. cbasic did. Natural & Adacom did it in 1980. -- Cheers John Summerfield http://os2.ami.co

Re: Important: Java 1.2 licencing changes

1998-12-08 Thread peter . pilgrim
Mrfr! I though a web hacker had crack www.javasoft.com at first!!! Question is though was Steve in on it? Pete __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Important: Java 1.2 licencing changes Author: thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at lon-mime

Re: Important: Java 1.2 licencing changes

1998-12-08 Thread Uncle George
tried looking for the non-commercial license, and its terms - have u folks seen that document? it seems that the "press release" relates to the commercial aspects of the licensing/openness but not the non-comm's gat Jaco Greeff wrote: > Visited the pages just now... the new pages are up. Wow! (A

RE: Important: Java 1.2 licencing changes

1998-12-08 Thread Jaco Greeff
Visited the pages just now... the new pages are up. Wow! (Also related story on javalobby.org) Greetings, // Jaco > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Down [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 3:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Important: Java 1

Re: Important: Java 1.2 licencing changes

1998-12-08 Thread tov are jacobsen
Java 2 is back. --- Vennlig hilsen Tov Are Jacobsen System utvikler http://zoom.no - Norges kjøpeguide On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Thomas Down wrote: > Just before 1pm GMT today, I visited http://www.javasoft.com/. The site > had been completely redesigned to announce that the JDK 1.2 technology had

what tools do you use for programming

1998-12-08 Thread Helge Hielscher
Hello, what tools do you use for *efficient* programming in Java? I have been looking around for a while, the only things I've found was FreeBuilder, but that programm seemed to be still alpha, with no progress in work. I tried to subscribe to the mailing list, but it didnt work. Maybe the projek

Important: Java 1.2 licencing changes

1998-12-08 Thread Thomas Down
Just before 1pm GMT today, I visited http://www.javasoft.com/. The site had been completely redesigned to announce that the JDK 1.2 technology had been re-named Java 2, and it was to be distributed under a new (more open) licence agreement. Then a few minutes later it all disappeared and the old

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-08 Thread Alex Pozgaj
Java News Collector wrote: > > 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, p

Re: Repaint problems with JList/JScrollPane/JSplitPane

1998-12-08 Thread Catalin CLIMOV
Try also a myList.revalidate() also. It works. Catalin CLIMOV. Trieu Dang wrote: > 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 setListD

Re: Maximum Heap Size

1998-12-08 Thread Michael D. James
Jason, I now do javac compiles with -J-mx64m (which works fine even on my 48Mb RAM laptop). Using top I often watch the memory utilization creep into the swapfile. (I know, I know, I should be using jikes!) Sorry I don't know what's up with totalMemory(). If no better solution is found, I und

Overloaded Constructor !!!

1998-12-08 Thread Ramesh Babu A.
Hi, I read that in java, constructor should have return type. But if i overload the constructor, and compile it is working ? How ? pls reply if anyone knows ? Thanx.

Maximum Heap Size

1998-12-08 Thread Jason Dillon
Is there any way to get the maximum heap size from inside java. I though that Runtime.totalMemory() would return that, but it does not. I current am running one vm with -mx50m and totalMemory() is returning 5242872, which is about 5mb not 50mb... unless I am totally crazy. I am running into a p

Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

1998-12-08 Thread John Summerfield
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, 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

is this list active?

1998-12-08 Thread Jason Dillon
Is this this still active... was there a list problem? I have not seen anything here for quite a while. --jason