Re: UGLY BUG parsing the date of "1999-04-30" in jdk 1.1.7 on Linux RH 5.2

1999-04-21 Thread Bryce McKinlay
This is a generic JDK bug (well, it will also occur on Solaris - the behavior might be different on the Windows JDKs). The problem is to do with Java's broken Calendar classes and has something to do with your timezone. The behaviour will be different depending on what time zone you are in - in

re: Sun's Agenda?

1999-04-21 Thread Nathan Meyers
Gerald de Jong wrote: > correct me if i'm wrong, but i can't help but conclude that it's in Sun's best > interest to have Java run extremely well on Solaris and on any other operating > system that represents the _client_ side of the story (ie. unable to > effectively invade server space, like NT)

Re: Drag & Drop

1999-04-21 Thread Pete Wyckoff
Niels Hilbrink writes: > I have been fiddling unsuccessfully with the Drag and Drop (dnd) > features in Java. Me too. No fix here, but a simpler test case that points to a problem with Swing. The code below only works if class Source extends TextArea, but not JTextArea (search for "blows"). T

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Daniel W. Dulitz x108
> ---On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:54:02 -0700 (PDT), Jeffrey Radick said > > If a Java app exchanges data with data from a non-Java program > > then it must face platform-specific endianness issues. > > Does a program fail to be 100% Pure Java if it exchanges > > data with a non-Java program? (I'm ask

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, > > 3. as a result of (2) there is nothing a 100% java app can do to determine > > the endianness of the platform it's being run on. > If a Java app exchanges data with data from a non-Java program > then it must face platform-specific endianness issues. > Does a program fail to be 100% Pur

Re: Sun's Agenda?

1999-04-21 Thread Matthew McKeon
Gerald de Jong wrote: > > forgive me for musing. this is not intended as any sort of flame > for anyone. [kersnip Re: Sun's intentions for Java along market lines] Interesting analysis. I've always found it pretty suspicious that Java technology, an architecture that c

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Chris Hawks
---On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:54:02 -0700 (PDT), Jeffrey Radick said > If a Java app exchanges data with data from a non-Java program > then it must face platform-specific endianness issues. > Does a program fail to be 100% Pure Java if it exchanges > data with a non-Java program? (I'm asking, I'm

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Radick
> ... > > Can someone help me clarify the following: > > > > Java is Big-Endian, correct? Yes, the language and JVM are defined this way. > > Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? Yes, this is a property of the CPU that Linux and all other OSes on Intel CPUs must live with. On other CPUs Lin

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Gerald de Jong
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Dustin Lang wrote: > > Can someone help me clarify the following: > > > > Java is Big-Endian, correct? > > Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? > > Corrrect me if I'm wrong, but here's my understanding of the endianness: > 1. the java classes (such as DataInputStream) do t

Sun's Agenda?

1999-04-21 Thread Gerald de Jong
forgive me for musing. this is not intended as any sort of flame for anyone. Sun is of course intent upon having their own Solaris operating system be the ultimate environment upon which to run the Java2 platform. for a JVM to work optimally it has to be woven deeply into the native code operat

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, > Can someone help me clarify the following: > > Java is Big-Endian, correct? > Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? Corrrect me if I'm wrong, but here's my understanding of the endianness: 1. the java classes (such as DataInputStream) do things big-endianedly 2. the jvm is responsible f

Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread James Caple
What's up? Can someone help me clarify the following: Java is Big-Endian, correct? Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: ...

1999-04-21 Thread Bruce R Miller
On Apr 21, 9:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: RE: ... > Well stated. I congratulate you on your directness > and your level-headedness. > ... > > -Original Message- > > From: Chris Abbey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Directness, sure, but level-headedness? It seemed to me only slig

newbie libc problem

1999-04-21 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi, I was running jdk1.17v1a successfully, with libc.so.6 pointing to libc-2.0.7.so Then I had to upgrade to libc-2.1.1.so, for other programs, and Java has stopped working. I now get: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/../bin/i686/green_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/.

Re: Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Michael Emmel
Wes Biggs wrote: > > All your arguments are factually right. But pyschology is at work here, and > > especially in an extremely important project like JDK porting (from my > > perspective, it is the second most important project after the kernel and at > > times more important), you have to acco

Re: Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Matt Welsh
I think the more relevant (and pragmatic) question is: What can we do to make the Blackdown team status more visible? Clearly many questions and concerns would be eliminated if the web pages had a regular status update -- this would help you to fend off flames and persistent questions as well. I

Re: Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Michael Sinz
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:18:36 -0700, Wes Biggs wrote: > [...] they've [Sun] >*increased* Blackdown's time-to-market by requiring JCK compatibility (I'm not >arguing that this should be eliminated, just that this is the effect it has had). That is not really true - Yes, passing the JCK is extra wo

Re: Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Wes Biggs
> All your arguments are factually right. But pyschology is at work here, and > especially in an extremely important project like JDK porting (from my > perspective, it is the second most important project after the kernel and at > times more important), you have to account for psychology, whethe

Re: can't find class ijvmasm

1999-04-21 Thread Nicholas Lee
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, TC Lin wrote: > > I finally make it work. > Only put "." in my CLASSPATH wouldn't do it. > I unzip "classes.zip" in the mic1 directory. > After that, everything seems fine. I've noticed this problem (and solution) at least once, although I haven't followed it up. Nichol

Re: UGLY BUG parsing the date of "1999-04-30" in jdk 1.1.7 on Linux RH 5.2

1999-04-21 Thread Ulli Kortenkamp
> "Constantin" == Constantin Teodorescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Constantin> Hello all, I have discovered a bug (?) in jdk Constantin> 1.1.7-v1a-glibc I am running a RedHat 5.2 i386 Linux Constantin> with 2.2.5 kernel on a K6II-350 MHz/64 Mb RAM The program works fine here.

RE: ...

1999-04-21 Thread vhasty
Well stated. I congratulate you on your directness and your level-headedness. Vann -- Vann Hasty Evans & Sutherland > -Original Message- > From: Chris Abbey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 10:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ... > > > At 03:01 PM

UGLY BUG parsing the date of "1999-04-30" in jdk 1.1.7 on Linux RH 5.2

1999-04-21 Thread Constantin Teodorescu
Hello all, I have discovered a bug (?) in jdk 1.1.7-v1a-glibc I am running a RedHat 5.2 i386 Linux with 2.2.5 kernel on a K6II-350 MHz/64 Mb RAM I am setting a new SimpleDateFormat with "-MM-dd" parsing format and I'm trying to parse and use some dates. Curiously, the ONLY date that doesn't

Re: JDK 1.1.8 for linux availability

1999-04-21 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Joao Carlos Costa writes: Joao> Is there any timeframe for the JDK 1.1.8 port for linux? Is it Joao> expectable ? We don't have the source code yet. Juergen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RCPT: JDK 1.1.8 for linux availability

1999-04-21 Thread Carl Wright
Return Receipt Notification --- Hi, Is there any timeframe for the JDK 1.1.8 port for linux? Is it expectable ? Thanks and keep up the good work, Joao -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't find class ijvmasm

1999-04-21 Thread TC Lin
I finally make it work. Only put "." in my CLASSPATH wouldn't do it. I unzip "classes.zip" in the mic1 directory. After that, everything seems fine. Still don't know what happens. I download exactly the same package and install in a RS/6000 machine and it runs fine. Thanks for all the inputs.

Re: IBM JVM Port

1999-04-21 Thread Chris Abbey
>Linux doesn't look at >all like OS/2 (which is a pity), so it might be just as hard -- if not >harder -- to port IBM's JVM to Linux as it is to port Sun's. Let's not forget AIX, VM/ESA, and OS/390's unix services! All three are much closer to Linux

libjdwp (part of JPDA/JBUG)

1999-04-21 Thread Hernan Otero
Has the libjdwp library been ported to Linux? And if it hasn't, is it in the near future plans? Thx. Hernan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --

JDK 1.1.8 for linux availability

1999-04-21 Thread Joao Carlos Costa
Hi, Is there any timeframe for the JDK 1.1.8 port for linux? Is it expectable ? Thanks and keep up the good work, Joao -- === Joao Carlos Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lab. de Sistemas Evolutivos Phone: +351-1-8418277 e

Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Cees de Groot
Chris Abbey wrote: > How so? You're multi-billion dollar international corporation is staking > it's bottom line on java2 for Linux? You were asssigned a project and sold > your prof on the idea of doing it on Linux and in Java, but absolutely > _have_ to have the latest and greatest whiz-bang fe

Java 3D

1999-04-21 Thread Dennis Gustafsson
Hi! I´m studying media technology at Linköping University of Sweden and I´m on a Java 3D project that will be finished within one month. We would like to run a game server written in Java1.2 and Java3D on a Linux box. My question is: Do you think JDK 1.2 and Java 3D for Linux will be finished fo

Re: IBM JVM Port

1999-04-21 Thread Charles Forsythe
> What would be the chance on getting > IBM's code ported to Linux or is this the wrong forum to be bringing > this up in. I missed the previous discussion on this topic, so I don't know if this was mentioned. IBM has committed itself to supporting OS/2 by keeping its Java implementation up-to-d

Java plug-in

1999-04-21 Thread Massimiliano Bigatti
Hi ! I've seen a link on plugin product homepage on javasoft site to you, but I was unable to find the page they're referring on. I'm interested in java plugin for linux. Regards, Massimiliano Bigatti - Omnia Data S.r.l. Tel: 02.2