dead applets under Netscape

1999-08-17 Thread Hicham Mouline
Hi, Anyone knows why the java console shows messages as applet did not shut down within 30 seconds --- Killing it. even though the thread ran from the applet finishes as its run method returns. Thanks in advance Hicham Mouline ManDrapeau Pte Ltd 69 Tras Street, Singapore 079008

Equal Size TextField

1999-08-17 Thread Sitanshu Bhusan Nanda
I am using java1.1.5 in linux 5.2. When I use AWT for stadalone applications the text fields become equal size irrespective of my size declaration. I am using GridBagLayout and GridBagConstraints for positioning the Components like Labels and Text Fields. Though the Labels are of different sizes

Executing other Programs through java

1999-08-17 Thread ALPESH KOTHARI
Hello All, I have written a simple program to execute "ls" through java. But it isnt working. Can any one point out the error? class ExecDemo{ public static void main(String args[]){ Runtime r=Runtime.getRuntime(); Process p=null; String cmd{}={"ls"}; try{

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-17 Thread Moses DeJong
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Jim Hazen wrote: > It seems that IBM has been pretty forthcoming with respect to support > for opensource people. All of the source to Jikes, and I believe their > JDK can be found on their website. IBM is very interested in using Java > as a middleware to their databases,

Re: feelings about Linux and Java

1999-08-17 Thread drfrog
Nelson Minar wrote: > >IMHO, the ideal situation would be for Sun to support Linux as one of > >its primary platforms. I don't understand why Sun does not. > > I don't understand why Sun doesn't support Linux either, either as a > platform for Java or better still, an OS for their hardware. SGI h

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-17 Thread Riyad Kalla
U.. I don't envy your testing job! That sounds like a nightmare come true. Being closer to Java then most of us on this list, do you see Sun planning another "Java 2" jump any time soon? Or does it seem they are going to stick with 1.2 for a while and really clean it up? Just curious if

feelings about Linux and Java

1999-08-17 Thread Nelson Minar
>IMHO, the ideal situation would be for Sun to support Linux as one of >its primary platforms. I don't understand why Sun does not. I don't understand why Sun doesn't support Linux either, either as a platform for Java or better still, an OS for their hardware. SGI has recently woken up and reali

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-17 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Riyad Kalla writes: Riyad> I would like some indication FROM Blackdown for the Riyad> following things just so I'm not so in the dark: Riyad> - The current status of the 1.2 JDK The basic issues are still the same: the native threads vm, and the color depths (actually vario

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-17 Thread Jim Hazen
It seems that IBM has been pretty forthcoming with respect to support for opensource people. All of the source to Jikes, and I believe their JDK can be found on their website. IBM is very interested in using Java as a middleware to their databases, and building web enabled data warehouses. This

Re: Problem when using 1.2

1999-08-17 Thread Moses DeJong
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Robert Perry wrote: > This sounds like a reasonable plan. I'll try it. Thank you. > > I'm happy to see a member of the JBuilder Development Team reading this list. > > Paolo Ciccone wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:12:26PM -0400, Robert Perry wrote: > > >

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-17 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Mike Christiansen writes: Mike> I too am very concerned with this issue and don't know what Mike> to say. My hat goes off for Blackdown. But even if the Mike> Blackdown effort produced a working, native thread VM The problems with the native threads vm are closely related to pr

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-17 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Riyad Kalla writes: Riyad> I was discussing exactly this with the creators of AnyJ the Riyad> other day. I was curious as to how much porting it takes to Riyad> port such a large project from Win32 to Solaris and Linux, Riyad> and the mentioned that Linux is the hardest sime

Strange error from Blackdown JDK 1.2 port.

1999-08-17 Thread Moses DeJong
Hi all. I tried to run the java_g executable in the blackdown port of the JDK 1.2 v2 when I got this error. Warning: opcode 212 not implemented yet Warning: JIT compiler failed for java/lang/ref/SoftReference.get()Ljava/lang/Object; I do not know if this was the cause, but the java_g executable

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-17 Thread Riyad Kalla
This is a good point, however I think they create lrun to not LOOSE market to Linux, not to support it. Realistically, why would such a huge corporation support Linux without gain? Personall I see it to their disadvantage to support Java fully on linux. Like another gentlement on this newgroup b

Re: Problem when using 1.2

1999-08-17 Thread Robert Perry
This sounds like a reasonable plan. I'll try it. Thank you. I'm happy to see a member of the JBuilder Development Team reading this list. Paolo Ciccone wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:12:26PM -0400, Robert Perry wrote: > > > > Speaking of Layout Manager problems. Is it just m

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-17 Thread Tod Matola
Hello, I'm just curious. Why is no one talking about the possible experience to be gained from IBM? Because the legal problems are too great, therefore stalling the relationship? Or is IBM unwilling to help (since it sounds they have much more to loose in the relationship)? Or is that it's rela

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
I wonder if this has anything to do with IBM's port. Some time ago IBM posted a technical preview of 1.1.6 for Linux (people that used it say it is extremely fast). IBM is probably working, as we speak, on version 1.2 to support their upcoming VisualAge for Java/Linux. Maybe Blackdown decided no

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Emmel
Jacob Nikom wrote: > I have feeling that for Sun Java is more important than Solaris. > IMHO they are targeting quickly growing embedded market to sell > more of their hardware. This market is good place for Java and > Linux, not Solaris. > > A lot of embedded and "real-time" software developers

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-17 Thread Jon Beniston
> IMHO, the ideal situation would be for Sun to support Linux as one of its > primary platforms. I don't understand why Sun does not. It would help Unix and > hurt NT (After all, the enemy of my enemy etc.). Is Linux not as much of a thread to Solaris? Jon. ---

Re: Problem when using 1.2

1999-08-17 Thread Robert Perry
I would like to thank everyone for there suggestions. However, I found changing window managers did the trick. I stumbled across this when I decided to let the Java application which was running on a Linux box across the building display on my O2 which was setting on my desk. (my laptop was

oracle/jdbc Image retrival from achive

1999-08-17 Thread Matt Zagni
Hi, This may seem complicated but I would like to retrive a number of images from a zip'ed/jar file where the location and image file is stored in the database. The jdbc/oracle query selects the user, returns the location of the image/photo and the image name. userid = location = /usr/local/im

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-17 Thread Joel McCarty
I understand your point of view - but at the same time Sun has provided support to port linux to their ultra series machines and with their release of lrun (a tool to allow linux programs binary compatibility under Solaris 7) it seems they wan't to support Linux. You also have to look at the fac

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-17 Thread Tod Matola
Hello, I would have to agree with Mike about a commercial port (we need one, or at least a commercially back port). I'm not sure that we should have to pay for it though (although I know my boss would). I think is very hard to convince people they should develop Java technologies for free (whe

Re: a silly question

1999-08-17 Thread peter pilgrim
Again use a `ByteArrayOutputStream' again, do not use `byte [] image_bytes = new byte[is.available]' ! THIS IS PURE PROTOTYPE, check the API BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream( -InputStream ); ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); byte [] raw_data = null; try

Plugin Question

1999-08-17 Thread Christopher T. Griffiths
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows where the java-plugin stands in development and if I can lend a hand? Thanks Chris Christopher T. Griffiths Senior Network/Systems Administrator Quansoo Group Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (302) 777-4141 Fax: (302) 777-4142 Mobile: (30

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-17 Thread Jacob Nikom
I have feeling that for Sun Java is more important than Solaris. IMHO they are targeting quickly growing embedded market to sell more of their hardware. This market is good place for Java and Linux, not Solaris. A lot of embedded and "real-time" software developers are looking into Linux+Java co

Re: File or class transfer over tcpip

1999-08-17 Thread peter pilgrim
This is not just an RMI / FTP problem. People have got in trouble with `InputStream.available()' when loading GIF images in Applets. Instead use a `ByteArrayOutputStream' to read the data, buffer size by buffer size then get the data by calling `getBytes()'. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Robert Co

Re: Communications Benchmarking

1999-08-17 Thread Thomas M. Sasala
Don't you need load balancing to take advantage of more than one link? FWIW, I don't think it's a linux thing - more likely a Java thing (or the linux port of Java). -Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi I am currently doing my Msc Project which is related with > communica

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-17 Thread Mike Christiansen
I see two points: 1. Having felt frustrated for some time with the lack of visible progress, I posted a message asking how I could help. No response. 2. There was a comment in an earlier message that a commercial product was not a good idea. I don't see why. Clearly, from the apparent difficulty

Re: Wrapper problem

1999-08-17 Thread Amlan Saha
Harri Sunila writes: > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Amlan Saha wrote: > > > Hi there > > > > I am trying to write a Java wrapper for some C libraries. I have > > gotten most of it working except that I am not able to launch > > programs from the C libaries. I have a standard C-shared obj

Communications Benchmarking

1999-08-17 Thread kiprian
Hi I am currently doing my Msc Project which is related with communications benchmarking of Fast Ethernet using java. A problem raised when I added one more 100Mbps fast Ethernet card to my system. While on windows95 I saw and increase from 3.5MB/s to 4.5MB/s when I added the second fast E

Re: Wrapper problem

1999-08-17 Thread Harri Sunila
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Amlan Saha wrote: > Hi there > > I am trying to write a Java wrapper for some C libraries. I have > gotten most of it working except that I am not able to launch > programs from the C libaries. I have a standard C-shared object > library where I define a function using >

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: Humanoid 0.3.5.30

1999-08-17 Thread peter pilgrim
I found a potential nasty bug in 0.3.5.30, which I have eradicated. There is a newer release 0.3.5.44 on my site. I think I also licked the ScreenUpdater Thread lock up bug at the end of the game (well maybe). The modification I did seem to get rid of it for now. See ` http://www.acme.com/java/bu

Wrapper problem

1999-08-17 Thread Amlan Saha
Hi there I am trying to write a Java wrapper for some C libraries. I have gotten most of it working except that I am not able to launch programs from the C libaries. I have a standard C-shared object library where I define a function using JNIEXPORT int JNICALL Java_API_Mypackage_myfu

Illegal Access

1999-08-17 Thread -=Steve-o=-
Hi. I'm trying to write an applet that makes use of JMF1.1 and JDK 1.1.7, but have been getting a strange error. I can't run the program not in a JAR as it breaches security (not allowed to open a network socket). So I put it in a JAR and signed it, but when I try and run it using appletview

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Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-17 Thread Jim Hazen
I'm going to have to agree completely. Now I can only imagine what a colossal PITA porting JDK 1.2 must be, given the bazillion API changes ranging from sound to 3D graphics support, but at least give us up to date information, at least once a week I'd say. Even if all they said was that they ha