Re: Java on Linux...

1999-08-18 Thread Bryce McKinlay
Riyad Kalla wrote: > If I am just am just doing basic Swing/Java apps on Linux. > And want a farily stable solution, would my best bet to be > JDK 1.1.8 (when it comes out in a bit from Blackdown) and > Swing 1.1.1 from Sun? Or is there THAT much difference > between that solution and JDK 1.2prev

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread tdean
>> 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? If done properly Linux can be levera

Re: Java on Linux...

1999-08-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
Riyad Kalla wrote: > > If I am just am just doing basic Swing/Java apps on Linux. > And want a farily stable solution, would my best bet to be > JDK 1.1.8 (when it comes out in a bit from Blackdown) and > Swing 1.1.1 from Sun? Or is there THAT much difference > between that solution and JDK 1.2pr

linux distribution preinstall java

1999-08-18 Thread J.P.Lewis
I think we should lobby a couple of the major linux distributions to include blackdown on their CDs. Most developers have a fast net connection, but downloading and correctly installing java is quite an effort if all you have is a modem connection. I heard that Redhat says that they can't for l

Java on Linux...

1999-08-18 Thread Riyad Kalla
If I am just am just doing basic Swing/Java apps on Linux. And want a farily stable solution, would my best bet to be JDK 1.1.8 (when it comes out in a bit from Blackdown) and Swing 1.1.1 from Sun? Or is there THAT much difference between that solution and JDK 1.2prev2? I would prefer a faster so

Re: Create an Image without using AWT

1999-08-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
"Spectron International, Inc." wrote: > > I need to create an Image object in a servlet. The problem is that the > createImage() functions seems to need AWT and I can't create an AWT object > in a servlet because it always tries to connect to the X Server. Is there > something like a MemoryImage

Create an Image without using AWT

1999-08-18 Thread Spectron International, Inc.
I need to create an Image object in a servlet. The problem is that the createImage() functions seems to need AWT and I can't create an AWT object in a servlet because it always tries to connect to the X Server. Is there something like a MemoryImage class that I can create to use as an offscreen ca

Crash on large java compiles under NFS?

1999-08-18 Thread A.J. Rossini
I'm consistently getting things like: SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation stackpointer=0xbfffd97c Full thread dump Classic VM (Linux_JDK_1.2_pre-release-v2, native threads): "Finalizer" (TID:0x40ce3320, sys_thread_t:0x80ccb88, state:CW, native ID:0xc04) prio=8 at java.la

Fix for "libjava.so not found"; Also sunwjit

1999-08-18 Thread Marc Rubin, Jay's Island Software Development & Consulting
A Blackdown team member provided a solution for my post here on 31-July-1999 regarding "Error: can't find libjava.so". The reply was via personal e-mail, so I'm forwarding the solution back to this listserv, for all who have asked for a follow up: >You tried something like 'cd jdk1.2/bin ; java

Re: do different jvm perform calcs differently?

1999-08-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
Greg Walker wrote: > > A mere curiosity ... > > I have a class that performs many calcs. The values are *slightly* > (after about 14 significant figures) different depending on the jvm I > use (either ibm's 1.1.6 or blackdown's 1.1.7). Is there a difference > between algorithms to solve for trig

RE: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread Pablo Prieto
>Win32 is the desktop OS. M$ was threatening the success of Java with J++ and >their Java-clone (COOL IIRC). Java without Win32 is a no-go. Linux is not that >important _yet_. We are migrating from NT to Linux. And evrything is going right. It's not a fast step. First We had to test the OS itself

Re: do different jvm perform calcs differently?

1999-08-18 Thread Martin Schröder
On 1999-08-18 11:52:16 -0500, Greg Walker wrote: > I have a class that performs many calcs. The values are *slightly* > (after about 14 significant figures) different depending on the jvm I > use (either ibm's 1.1.6 or blackdown's 1.1.7). Is there a difference > between algorithms to solve for tri

do different jvm perform calcs differently?

1999-08-18 Thread Greg Walker
A mere curiosity ... I have a class that performs many calcs. The values are *slightly* (after about 14 significant figures) different depending on the jvm I use (either ibm's 1.1.6 or blackdown's 1.1.7). Is there a difference between algorithms to solve for trig functions or logarithms between j

Re: How can I help?

1999-08-18 Thread Moses DeJong
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Larry Gates wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:48:11 + > >From: Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> So, I think the Linux community needs a better, GUI driven FTP > >> program in the style of CuteFTP. Java is well suited to develop this. > > > >ncftp> get -R > >w

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread Michael Emmel
SHUDO Kazuyuki wrote: > Michael Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By splitting the JVM from the class libraries via a portable interface we gain >a lot ! > > I think if development was split between multiple JVM's and a open robust class >library > > we could get competative support f

Re: How can I help?

1999-08-18 Thread Martin Schröder
On 1999-08-18 10:50:26 -0300, Larry Gates wrote: > >From: Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Personally, I can't stand GUI ftp tools. But if you want them, try a > >search on freshmeat.org. I'm sure they'll have half a dozen. > > their website isn't up yet... http://core.freshmeat.net/mirrors.php

Re: How can I help?

1999-08-18 Thread Larry Gates
>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:48:11 + >From: Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> So, I think the Linux community needs a better, GUI driven FTP >> program in the style of CuteFTP. Java is well suited to develop this. > >ncftp> get -R >will do it, if you want all the files in one directory. yea

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-18 Thread peter pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Riyad> - What they need from US to help out > Riyad> - What the future looks like. > > The JDK 1.1.8 is nearly finished (the remaining problem is the native > threads vm). > The next JDK 1.2 release will be 1.2.1 because AFAIK there still is no > JCK t

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread SHUDO Kazuyuki
Michael Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By splitting the JVM from the class libraries via a portable interface we gain a >lot ! > I think if development was split between multiple JVM's and a open robust class >library > we could get competative support from comercial and Open Source v

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-18 Thread eric van berkel
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:00:20 Gunnar Stahl wrote: >> > >maybe in the desktop area. And they knew that it was very usefull to create the >thought and feeling of a "java community". But the big heads at solaris >suddenly noticed that linux is becoming more and more stronger and that they >have t

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-18 Thread peter pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So we're left with a few questions. Should the existing devolopers of > Java porting projects aid an IBM JDK? IBM having greater resources to > throw at this, knowing that their work would go to speed up the > production of a product owned by a corporation, that inte

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread Martin Schröder
On 1999-08-17 11:40:42 -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote: > I don't see it being in Sun's interest at all to support Linux. They are shooting, > obviously, for the biggest market. I always found it interesting that they had a full > complete JDK for Win32 LONG before they had a final version available for

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-18 Thread Gunnar Stahl
> It is very fascinating to see what is right now going on in the java market. Mainly during the last two or three years there was a big hype going on about java and the "write once run anywhere" promise. Sun claimed it's java to be the solving of the problems of modern computerlanguages. You wri

Font.properties for Latin-2

1999-08-18 Thread Damijan Sencar
Hi! I am looking for font.properties file supporting Latin-2 character set or some examples how to write font.properties file. Thanx, Damijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou