Re: java developer feedback

2000-11-13 Thread noisebrain
I program desktop graphics for a large company (Disney). We develop in part on Linux and deploy on SGI, but possibly linux in the future. Elsewhere in the company there are mac clients with sun servers, etc. My two issues: 1) FONTS. The fonts look different on every platform, and they only lo

Re: java developer feedback

2000-11-13 Thread Joi Ellis
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote: > Far and away the most important attribute of a technology is its > reliability. Features don't do anyone any good unless they work. Java's > unreliability is a cancer that eats at everyone's confidence. Java has > enough features to last a lifetim

Re: CVS vs RCS vs ?

2000-11-13 Thread Nathan Meyers
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:30:15PM -0600, Barnet Wagman wrote: > I need to choose a version control system and I'd like to know what > other people are using. > > Currently, I do most of my devlopment with xemacs/JDE, so I'm leaning > towards RCS, since emacs supports it. But CVS seems more comm

Re: CVS vs RCS vs ?

2000-11-13 Thread Pete Brower
Will you be the only person making code changes? We used RCS but switched to CVS since we have multiple developers around the country all working on the same source code modules. CVS very easily lets us make whatever changes we want to any modules all concurrently and when we commit our changes,

Re: CVS vs RCS vs ?

2000-11-13 Thread Joi Ellis
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Barnet Wagman wrote: > I need to choose a version control system and I'd like to know what > other people are using. > > Currently, I do most of my devlopment with xemacs/JDE, so I'm leaning > towards RCS, since emacs supports it. But CVS seems more common in the > Linux wo

Re: problems with serial port communication

2000-11-13 Thread Joi Ellis
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Peter John Cameron wrote: > What's the consensus on the best Java IDE to use? I develop with VAJ 3.02 > and JDK1.2 on w*nd*z* at work. I downloaded VAJ 3.02 for Linux. > Unfortunately at the weekend I discovered that you can't simply "update" VAJ > 3.02 for Linux from 1.1.7A

Re: java developer feedback

2000-11-13 Thread Vladimir G Ivanovic
Far and away the most important attribute of a technology is its reliability. Features don't do anyone any good unless they work. Java's unreliability is a cancer that eats at everyone's confidence. Java has enough features to last a lifetime. It's now time to make them work. ---Vladimir Vladimi

CVS vs RCS vs ?

2000-11-13 Thread Barnet Wagman
I need to choose a version control system and I'd like to know what other people are using. Currently, I do most of my devlopment with xemacs/JDE, so I'm leaning towards RCS, since emacs supports it. But CVS seems more common in the Linux world. Are there other choices? Thanks, Barnet Wagman

Re: problems with serial port communication

2000-11-13 Thread Peter John Cameron
What's the consensus on the best Java IDE to use? I develop with VAJ 3.02 and JDK1.2 on w*nd*z* at work. I downloaded VAJ 3.02 for Linux. Unfortunately at the weekend I discovered that you can't simply "update" VAJ 3.02 for Linux from 1.1.7A to 1.2.2 :( I've only used VAJ so I'd like something wi

problems with serial port communication

2000-11-13 Thread Gozman Florian Leonard
> > Hello, > > I work on RedHat 6.2 platform and I'm to make a communication on Serial > Port using RXTX-1.5-3 package and JavaSun JDK1.3 package. > I've succeeded to send date from Linux on the serial port /dev/ttyS1 (in > Windows is COM2). > This data is received on Windows well. > But the prob

Re: Swing jsdk1.3 not working!!!!!!

2000-11-13 Thread Nathan Meyers
Erick, Check to make sure you don't also have Kaffe installed, or, if you do, make sure that the SDK is in your path first. Nathan   erick wrote: Hi guys, how are you all,,  I just got my Mandrake 7.2 happening, and got the new jsdk1.3 so, it works fine with any package but swing, it says t

Swing jsdk1.3 not working!!!!!!

2000-11-13 Thread erick
Hi guys, how are you all,,         I just got my Mandrake 7.2 happening, and got the new jsdk1.3 so, it works fine with any package but swing, it says that it cannot find JFrame class, or any swing component, the jsdk1.3 was in RPM format..please help       If you can send an example of the