Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Mike Ajemian
Don't believe I mentioned the word conspiracy or even tried to represent any argument as such. Amazed at how the responses have represented the "crackpot" perspective so quickly. I don't believe Sun and Inprise conspired to block blackdown out. I think Inprise wants it's own presence for its ow

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Ted Neward
I thoroughly agree with Nathan's assessment--it makes no sense to believe that Sun and/or Inprise somehow *want* this bad publicity. Quite frankly, given the nature of the lack of responsiveness of the Blackdown team themselves (no offense, guys, but this is simply personal observation) to various

JDK 1.1.8-v1 files on mirrors

1999-12-10 Thread Scott Murray
It seems that the Intel version of the Blackdown JDK 1.1.8 has been released, as I noticed an i386 directory in JDK-1.1.8 tonight. I've been unable to run it just yet here at home, as I'm still running a stock RedHat 6.0, but I've noticed the following two glitches so far: - the files are .bz in

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Nathan Meyers
Paolo Ciccone wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:43:47PM -0500, Mike Ajemian wrote: > > > to our postings" crap). The community will suffer as 2 products that > > should be on the same code base are now completely separate products > > (which Inprise likely wants since it doesn't dilute thei

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:43:47PM -0500, Mike Ajemian wrote: > to our postings" crap). The community will suffer as 2 products that > should be on the same code base are now completely separate products > (which Inprise likely wants since it doesn't dilute their product with > an Inprise-Blackd

Re: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file

1999-12-10 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Emmanuel Papirakis writes: >> /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin >> [muster@192 bin]$ javac >> ./java: error in loading shared libraries: >> libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such >> file or directory Emmanuel> I agree with you when you say that the CLASSPATH

Re: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file

1999-12-10 Thread Emmanuel Papirakis
> /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin > [muster@192 bin]$ javac > ./java: error in loading shared libraries: > libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or directory Hello, I agree with you when you say that the CLASSPATH and the JAVA_HOME variables are now obsolete. BUT, you stil

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Mike Ajemian
> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by > stupidity." (Hanlon's Razor?) > PR folks working for large organizations typically don't have two > clues to rub together - not only about techical details and > development politics, but also about what is really important. I

Servlet+JSP engine

1999-12-10 Thread Claudio Miranda
Anyone hear about resin engine for servlet and jsp? Is it more quickly than JServ? Any comments about this is welcome thanks 4 all Claudio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: open source IBM

1999-12-10 Thread Jo Uthus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Perhaps what people have been hearing is that IBM will make their Jikes | compiler open source?Apparently it will be in the developerWorks Open | Source arena. The jikes is already available with full sourcecode. -- Jo Uthus| e-mail: [EM

Font problems(possible fix)

1999-12-10 Thread emirikol
If anyone of you were having problem with your fonts(dingbats not being found) I noticed that if I took my font.properties from jdk1.2prev2 and copied(I hope this is alright to do) and put them in my jdk1.2.2/jre/lib directory and then renamed font.properties to font.properties.old. Matt Brown

JDBC ODBC Servlets on JWS

1999-12-10 Thread Amit
i was attempting to use the JDBC ODBC driver along with Java Servlets operating on a Java Web Server. I have been getting an error when attempting to concurrently access the same servlet accessing a stored procedure in Oracle 8 which i have not been able to figure out. the details of the error mes

Re: Good job on 1.2.2RC*, comments

1999-12-10 Thread Jacob Nikom
Hi Michael, I would like to elaborate a bit about your comments: ownership versus credit. I think there are some legal issues here. If you work for the company and you patented something, the company owns the patent, but you still own your name on the patent. Company cannot change it, otherwis

Re: Retrieving data from mysql to an applet

1999-12-10 Thread Nicholas Wright
Hi It's *probably* due to Netscape thinking that "localhost" is the host the browser is running on. Try using "getCodeBase().getHost()" instead. Nicholas > I have an applet which is suppose to display data from a MySQL database > to the web browser. This applet works fine with appletviewer bu

open source IBM

1999-12-10 Thread jknutson
Perhaps what people have been hearing is that IBM will make their Jikes compiler open source?Apparently it will be in the developerWorks Open Source arena. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Nicholas Wright
Fair point. But if I were to be cynical, perish the thought, maybe Chris would prefer users not to go with JBuilder as it may hurt Netbean's popularity. As NetBeans was a asset acquisition, does Sun still give NetBeans money to keep it up to date? Nicholas > Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 0

Retrieving data from mysql to an applet

1999-12-10 Thread AMH
Hi, I have an applet which is suppose to display data from a MySQL database to the web browser. This applet works fine with appletviewer but when I run it in a browser it gives an error; "Java.Sql.SQLException: cannot connect to mysql server on localhost:3306. Is there a mysql server running

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Michael Thome
> "Chris" == Chris LeDantec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > inprise makes tools. they also partner with sun who just picked up two tools > companies and has bcm a competitor. this is an interesting scenario since > the owner of java technology is now a direct competitor with companies that

Good job on 1.2.2RC*, comments

1999-12-10 Thread Michael Thome
Just wanted to say that I'm *really* pleased with 1.2.2RC2, and I'm sure that the rest will be even better. I've been running RC2 with native threads on an SMP machine (2xPIII-500) with 2.3-series kernel without a hitch - *very* nice. Worth the wait, guys! It appears that the whole blackdown/s

Is there parallel port support from java for linux ??

1999-12-10 Thread Syam_Kumar_Abburi
Hi friends, I came to know from Java-Linux FAQ mail archives that, there is no parallel port support in Java 1.1 for Linux. In Jdk 1.2.2 for Linux it was not mentioned because comm api is not part of core jdk ( i remember i have read it ). When i looked at Java Comm for Linux web page it was me

Re: J2EE for linux?

1999-12-10 Thread Ernst de Haan
"Kenneth Y.K. YOUNG" wrote: > > Dear gentlemen, > > Glad to hear about the release of J2SE for linux. > Do u know what is the plan/status of a J2EE port for linux? Check out the BullSoft site for the announcement of an Open Source J2EE implementation: * http://www.bullsoft.com/ejb Here's t

Re: Sun/Inprise/GPL Linux JDK

1999-12-10 Thread Nelson Minar
>I was actually trying to make a reference to the fact that I have not >yet seen a mention of Red Hat in our discussions of who should be >driving Java on Linux. Why is that? Or VA Linux? :-) Sadly, I don't think many people at Red Hat care about Java. There's this funny anti-Java sentiment in t

Re: Any EJB for Linux?

1999-12-10 Thread Steve Nguyen
We have been trying it in the wish of adding it as our valud-added service but we found it abit dis-organized. Regards, -- Steve Nguyen C.E.O E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KBMail Software & Java Hosting Services Provider Web site: http://kbmail.com | http://www.ebpcs.net - Original Message ---

About Chinese Fonts

1999-12-10 Thread Zhang Fan
Hi, All! I need to display chinese character in java application on linux. I use RedHat 6.0 and Blackdown JDK1.1.7. I want to know which local font should I use. I have checked the font.properties file, it seems that it use chinese font from Sun. But i tried, and it didn't work. If anyone has th

Re: Sun/Inprise/GPL Linux JDK

1999-12-10 Thread a b
A strong opinionated colleague of mine said the following: > > RedHat have revenues of $10m -- and are capitalized on the NASDAQ > > at -- ready for this -- $20 billion -- they're worth one fifth of > > what Gates is worth. > > > > These guys should stop bleating and start demanding that RedHat

another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-10 Thread Chris LeDantec
i'm in an interesting position, and as such i need to drop a disclaimer from the get go bcs these are my views and not those of the company i work for... (the necessary b.s. since i'm too lazy to get a hotmail account to post from...) everyone is jumping down sun's throat on this one, with good c

Re: RC3 Matrix Benchmark

1999-12-10 Thread Wolfgang HOSCHEK
> Remote host said: 550 This domain is banned. No idea what this is. (We're an org with >1000 people, receiving tons of mail, we're certainly not a phantom). Anyway. > Ok, i'll try again. > how do u specifically run the programs? > gat That's not a very specific question, maybe being answer

libjava.so: cannot open shared object file

1999-12-10 Thread gerd
Hi *, I have exactly the same problem as Arnaldo Riquelme Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 (see Archive): [muster@192 bin]$ pwd /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/bin [muster@192 bin]$ javac ./java: error in loading shared libraries: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Unfortunately

Re: RC3 Matrix Benchmark

1999-12-10 Thread Uncle George
This is what I get back: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at voicenet.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Connected to 137.138.128.17 but sender was rejected.

Re: permissions

1999-12-10 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
Hi, it should be possible to determine this by trial-and-error. Remove that AllPermissions and run your program. Watch out for the first SecurityException. It usually can be derived from the error message which permission is missing. Grant this permissen, then run you prg again... Matthias Jos