Re: Threads

2000-01-20 Thread Michael Maloney
For a good explanation of how threads are implemented within Java on Linux see: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/java2/index.html It explains green vs. native threads. It also touches on why you might want to use native threads with JNI. 'pthreads' is the Posix standard interface

Re: Threads

2000-01-20 Thread Jacob Nikom
Hi, Sorry for the book referring instead of direct answer - those are too generic questions to answer in a message. The best thing to understand this stuff better is to read Nathan Meyers book "Java Programming on Linux" (www.javalinux.net). You also can find some answer searching through the

more fonts problems (getting font.properties.tt to work)

2000-01-20 Thread burton
Has *anyone* been able to get the true type fonts to work? There is a font.properties.tt file that ships with 1.2.2. It is supposed to be a drop in replacement once you get your fonts setup. - I know I have the fonts setup. I have netscape displaying my true type fonts. - xlsfonts shows all t

Threads

2000-01-20 Thread A. Scott White
Hello. I'm a complete newbie to Linux, please bear with me. I am an experienced C, C++ programmer, however, so feel free to answer accordingly. In reading the {} document I came across this quote: == BEGIN QUOTE == * We strongly recommend using the native threads vm in conjunction with JNI. An

Re: Sun JDK for Linux vs. Blackdown

2000-01-20 Thread Jacob Nikom
Look at http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/info.html Obviously, Sun placed their JDK on Sun's web site. To understand this stuff better, read Nathan Meyers book "Java Programming on Linux" (www.javalinux.net) Jacob Nikom Michael Maloney wrote: > > I just learned that Sun now has its JDK avail

Re: Sun JDK for Linux vs. Blackdown

2000-01-20 Thread Brian Pomerantz
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 03:10:28PM -0600, Michael Maloney wrote: > > How do they do this? Does the Sun JDK use green threads by > default? > Yes. BAPper -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Terrible native thread performance

2000-01-20 Thread Chris Kakris
Marek Gmyrek wrote: > > I use the same system (RH6.1) with Blackdown JDK1.2 RC3 and have the same > observations. Both native and green versions are very slowly, especially > with GUI stuff, when compared to jdk1.1.8 (v1). > > Processor utilization is not so bad, until I move a window and a wind

Sun JDK for Linux vs. Blackdown

2000-01-20 Thread Michael Maloney
I just learned that Sun now has its JDK available for Linux. I downloaded it from: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/j2sdk122 I noticed that in the README 'credits' section they give kudos to the blackdown development team. What is the relationship between the blackdown JDK a

Re: [Q] CORBA: Any idltojava for linux??

2000-01-20 Thread Nestor A. Diaz
If you are searching for an ORB in Java use JacORB, i used to program in JacORB more than one year ago, so i expect now its better that before, is written in 100% pure Java, and the documentation is excelent, believeme excelent, and with a lot of examples to play with. You will have no problem pr

font not found (new bug... not the known one)

2000-01-20 Thread burton
So I am trying to change the fonts on the blackdown JDK. Specifically because I just think they are ugly :) What I am trying to do is use the fonts setup in the IBM JDK 1.1.8 with their font.properties. However when I copy the font.properties to overwrite the ./jre/lib/font.properties I get:

Installing Java

2000-01-20 Thread Joe Johnson
Hello, I am having trouble with my java installation. this is the error I get when I run the installation test. jjohnson=/lib [234]:java -version java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/local/jdk117_v1a/lib/i686/green_threads/libjava.so: undefined symbol: _dl_symbol_value I have libc.so.

Re: font not found

2000-01-20 Thread Nash'at Ahmad
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Renzo Pecoraro wrote: > Install that font or (simpler) delete that line from the font.properties > file in the /jre/lib directory. > > Renzo Thanks. It worked. What would be the procedure if I wanted to install the font. Is it something that I missed while installing RedH

Re: swing on suse linux on ldk1.2

2000-01-20 Thread Peter Mount
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > does any one know why swing is not working on a suse linux box with > jdk1.2? > generally what do i need to do to run swing with jdk1.2 What version of SuSE are you using? When I tried the most recent version from blackdown on my 6.3 box last week,

Re: Terrible native thread performance

2000-01-20 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Marek Gmyrek wrote: > observations. Both native and green versions are very slowly, especially > with GUI stuff, when compared to jdk1.1.8 (v1). > > Processor utilization is not so bad, until I move a window and a window > in background has to repaint itself. Repainting take

Re: 1.2pre2: no green threads with JIT on non-SMP?

2000-01-20 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2000-01-20 14:25:32 +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: > Hi, > on a Suse 6.3 installation (kernel 2.2.13) with only one cpu the > 1.2pre2 doesn't run with -green and JIT; -green works only > without JIT. Native threads work with and without JIT. Any idea > what's wrong? Addendum: I tried the glib 2

1.2pre2: no green threads with JIT on non-SMP?

2000-01-20 Thread Martin Schröder
Hi, on a Suse 6.3 installation (kernel 2.2.13) with only one cpu the 1.2pre2 doesn't run with -green and JIT; -green works only without JIT. Native threads work with and without JIT. Any idea what's wrong? Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

swing on suse linux on ldk1.2

2000-01-20 Thread vkanta
does any one know why swing is not working on a suse linux box with jdk1.2? generally what do i need to do to run swing with jdk1.2 TIA B. Kantartzis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Segmentation fault problem

2000-01-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 04:54:37PM -0600, Michael Maloney wrote: > I am trying it now using Jdk1.2.2 RC3. I'm running under > RedHat Linux 6.1 (glibc 2.1.2). i am running the same under Debian 2.2... > It runs fine until iteration #259656, then it crashes with a > Segmentation fault. This number

Re: Terrible native thread performance

2000-01-20 Thread Marek Gmyrek
Hi, -->Here is what I see with Linux. I am running on a freshly installed RedHat -->6.1 machine. With either JDK, running in native threads is absolutely -->crippling. There seems to be a serparate JDK process ID for each running -->thread, or otherwise something is casuing it to fork 15 times. O

Re: Terrible native thread performance

2000-01-20 Thread Oliver Koell
Daniel Stux wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I've just installed two versions of the JDK1.2.2 for linux: Sun's RC2, and > Blackdown's RC3. I am experiencing the wierdest behavior I have ever seen > for a JDK. > I didn't see someone else mentioning this: did you try IBM's JDK? /Oliver --