Re: Vote of 'No Confidence' in SUNs 'guidance' for Java.

2000-10-30 Thread Chris Abbey
At 18:11 10/30/00 -0800, noisebrain wrote: >This (the license) does not negate the fact that the source is available >and can be changed. actually it does. What can you (legally) do with that changed source? Nothing. Can you give it to me in binary form? no. Can you give it to me in source form?

Re: Sun's Java as OSS?

2000-10-26 Thread Chris Abbey
At 09:57 10/26/00 +0200, Andreas Rueckert wrote: >I wonder how much a GPLed Sun Java would help Classpath. Would it mean that >those who had to take a look at the Sun sources could contribute to the >project? I can't speak for everyone, but a lot of us would still not be able to, even if sun wer

Re: Tomcat + EJB ?

2000-10-05 Thread Chris Abbey
At 17:39 10/5/00 -0700, Nathan Meyers wrote: >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:59:21PM +, Mark Ogden wrote: > > Here's a quick question...Sorry to waste people's time but what are the > > essential differences between JavaBeans and EJB from a practical point of > > view? >They aren't similar in the

Re: Blackdown Applet

2000-09-21 Thread Chris Abbey
At 23:57 9/21/00 +, Mark Ogden wrote: >I see what you mean about the applet. After I flicked through a few pages >Netscape crashed and it seemed to take the whole of X with it! Hmmm...no >response from anything until I killed NN. Is this a prob with the applet >or with NN? I'm running 4.7. I'

Re: Need a BIG help

2000-09-18 Thread Chris Abbey
Sorry, but most of the people on this list aren't going to help you write a backdoor/trojan. Perhaps a not so subtle reminder to everyone... [EMAIL PROTECTED] == JAVA & LINUX JAVA & LINUX != JAVA | LINUX --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] != JAVA | LINUX At 15:42 9/18/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

Re: Sun JDK 1.3.0 RC

2000-09-10 Thread Chris Abbey
At 15:58 9/10/00 -0700, Christopher Smith wrote: >The issue isn't about paying for the JVM. The JVM is a complex piece >of software, and as a consequence it has a lot of bugs and performance >issues. It's also a nice piece of general purpose software which could >be retargeted to any number of sol

Re: Who is right?

2000-09-08 Thread Chris Abbey
At 09:08 9/8/00 -0400, Jacob Nikom wrote: >I would like to thank all people in discussion, especially Chris. your welcome. :) >I had never looked at bytecodes before. As far as I see the >call to the String constructor is in the line 3. the bytecode at offset 3: 3 new #11 is an instance

Re: Who is right?

2000-09-07 Thread Chris Abbey
At 01:45 9/8/00 +0200, Uli Luckas wrote: >Now the second bad news, if you decompile the code generated with either >javac or jikes you can see that the constructor call is really compiled >into the code. umm... no it isn't test.java: public class test { public static void main (String[]

Re: JDK1.3 on Linux with SMP

2000-08-22 Thread Chris Abbey
At 17:00 8/22/00 -0700, Java Linux wrote: >Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError > <> > >In fact, it's unlikely that there should be any memory >problems and this error does not occur when running on just because it says it's out of "memory" don't believe it actually is re

Re: Question about @ argument to javac

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Abbey
At 19:04 7/17/00 -0700, Nathan Meyers wrote: >But you're *not* running javac with no arguments. No arguments suggests >you don't know the command and want some help - specifying an argument >like "@empty" suggests something very different. BTW, IBM's JDK1.3 >compiler behaves the same way. as will

Re: java stack size

2000-06-20 Thread Chris Abbey
At 12:11 6/20/00 +0200, Peter Schuller wrote: >Use the "-Xss" switch in Sun's JDK:s. -Xoss for the native C stack size. > > If I specify not eoough stack size, what will happen? > >You'd get a StackOverFlowError during runtime. It's not something that >happens alot under normal circumstances tho

Re: compiler optimization

2000-06-08 Thread Chris Abbey
At 23:37 6/7/00 -0400, Joseph Shraibman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sez who? Maybe your jre happens to run that way, but IIRC the behavior >is undefined. If I wasn't so lazy I would look it up. sez the JLS, section 4.5.5. Yes I have it infront of me. No it's not there because of this thread. And

Re: How to close ServerSocket

2000-05-14 Thread Chris Abbey
ok, I'll go out on a limb and guess that you're trying for multi-threaded access/shutdown here... where thread A creates the socket saves a reference to it somewhere and then goes into accept and you're trying to shut it down with another thread. without putting some code to handle shutdown behi

Re: Jikes and Jax dont mix (PR#227)

2000-05-10 Thread Chris Abbey
I made several recreation attempts under two environments as documented below, based on these I do not believe this is a jikes bug, but rather a combination of JAX and blackdown's JVM (You failed to mention which version of Jikes you're running btw, so I used the current version.) recreation envi

Re: jdb tips?

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Abbey
the jdb docs for the 1.2 release don't seem to have been updated for any platform, see the jdb docs for 1.3 instead: http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/tooldocs/solaris/jdb.html cabbey at home dot net <*> http://members.home.net/cabbey I want a binary interface to the brain

Re: RMI Problems

2000-03-16 Thread Chris Abbey
I think you're hitting one of the problems with RMI on multi-homed machines, the stubs hold a liveref object which contains an address and a port. On a machine with multiple addresses you sometimes endup shipping a stub that contains an address on the "wrong" interface. Take for example my setup w

Re: VMs with processor specific code generation

2000-02-01 Thread Chris Abbey
At 17:42 2/1/00 +0100, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote: >Does anyone know whether there are any VMs out there that generate CPU >specific machine code? >Eg. detect a PentiumIII and issue approprate prefetch instructions, etc. >If so, is there material available describing how far such CPU specific >support

Re: problems with rmi (linux 1.2 client, solaris 1.3 server)

2000-01-11 Thread Chris Abbey
At 14:00 1/11/00 +, Aaron M. Stromas wrote: [...] >bash$ java -Djava.security.policy=/home/ams/.java.security Client >java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling return; nested >exception is: >java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.wrox.rmi.Reverse_Stub >java.lang.ClassNotFoundExce

Re: heap space and performace (what is going on??)

2000-01-07 Thread Chris Abbey
LY see them doing some development in that direction. This is what lead to that assumption, if you say I'm off base then fine, I'll take your word for it at face value. >At 03:13 AM 1/6/00 -0600, Chris Abbey wrote: >> >>my nose is itching. I might be smelling what I think I

Re: jdk118 under Redhat6.0

1999-12-28 Thread Chris Abbey
three thoughts leap to mind immediately: 1. rtfm, rtfla 2. stop sending in x-html 3. the java interpreter expects a class name, not a file name. thus the invocation is 'java Clock2' not 'java Clock2.class' which is trying to run a class called "class" in a package called "Clock2". fe

Re: I can compile file1.java but cannot run file1.class in Linux.

1999-12-27 Thread Chris Abbey
then you should use the same commands in Linux as you used in winblows: 'java file1', not 'java file1.class'. This second is looking for a class named 'class' in a package 'file1'. p.s. I'd recommend upgrading to one of the 1.1.8 vms available on the web. At 11:07 12/27/99 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: appletviewer won't run demo class

1999-12-24 Thread Chris Abbey
At 00:53 12/24/99 -0500, Linda Lincoln wrote: >Perhaps, but some additional information: When I point netscape-navigator at >the same HTML file it runs the applet without error or complaint (arguments netscape has a 1.1 vm. (1.1.5 iirc) >and all). I would expect this kind of behaviour from a S

Re: appletviewer won't run demo class

1999-12-23 Thread Chris Abbey
At 13:18 12/23/99 -0500, Edward W. Rouse wrote: >Don't worry too much about the font errors. agreed... unless you're trying to use dingbats. >The real error is the last part: agreed, but you've got the cause a little off... >> java.lang.ClassFormatError: Animator (Arguments can't fit into loca

Re: Where is the plugin?

1999-12-20 Thread Chris Abbey
exactly where it should be... Java-Linux download pick a mirror, any mirror you think is relatively current jdk1.1.8 i386 v1 JavaPlugIn_1.1.2_k-glibc-2.1.2.sh At 22:21 12/20/99 +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: >Hello, > >I've seen references to the Linux version of the Java plugin, but I am >unable

Re: invalid method hash with rmi calls

1999-12-19 Thread Chris Abbey
At 21:59 12/18/99 -0700, Jeff Galyan wrote: >Actually, that makes sense. Java 2 has a different security structure >than previous releases. If you took away permissions from the jre libs, >then you'd get that error. That error makes sense to you because of security being restriced? HUH? in 1.1 t

Re: dropped RMI objects

1999-12-16 Thread Chris Abbey
Are you puting an RMI server object in the jsp VM? Assuming not... Is there ever a point in time where no external process has a handle to the server object? Are you doing anything "unusual" with the stubs? serializing them? The NoSuchObjectException does not come from the RMIRegistry, unless y

Re: invalid method hash with rmi calls

1999-12-16 Thread Chris Abbey
it means the method you were calling has somehow changed since the server's _Skel class was compiled. I know you said they're in sink, but verify that the client and server both have the same version of the interface, the impl, the _Stub and the _Skel classes... also verify that the _Stub and _Ske

Re: ZDNet picks up the story

1999-12-09 Thread Chris Abbey
OK, I've now seen the rumor mentioned three times... can anyone point to an IBM source of where this might be comming from? -=Chris p.s. Without trying to spread it, the rumor I'm refering to is the one that IBM will be OSS'ing their Linux VM in the 1.3 time frame cabbey at home dot net <*

Re: looking for URL

1999-12-09 Thread Chris Abbey
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1484634.html?tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.1003-20 0-1484634 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JRE error when installing Oracle8i

1999-12-09 Thread Chris Abbey
At 13:05 12/9/99 +0700, you wrote: >FYI, I've already installed JRE 1.1.6v5 in /usr/local/jre directory um... try a *current* version. For a x86 box running RH6.1 I'd highly recommend either blackdown's 118v1 or IBM's 118. -=Chris cabbey at home dot net <*> http://members.home.net/cabbey

Re: Sun and Inprise Java 2 announcement

1999-12-07 Thread Chris Abbey
I've tried to stay out of this thread as much as I could; but since Paolo is going to take this back to the "big picture" I'd like to take a second here and say something, 'cause I perfer the big picture to the pissing wars this could become (but thankfully hasn't yet (think "GNU/Linux" vs "Linux"

Re: Fun with serialization

1999-11-30 Thread Chris Abbey
At 07:38 11/30/99 , Michael Sinz wrote: >Also, I know of some problems with older versions of other Java compilers >(such as Jikes) that produce different version IDs from what JavaC does. >(This is a tricky problem - again it should not be an issue as you should >you the same exact class file and

hint to mirror maintainers...

1999-11-28 Thread Chris Abbey
there's actvity on the web pages... you might want to update your mirrors. and those that think it's being done for you might want to double check your scripts three out of four mirrors are at least five months out of date, while the remaining one is unreachable from here. Considering how slow

Re: I have core file from jikes (if anybody is interested)

1999-11-23 Thread Chris Abbey
At 11:22 11/23/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On 23-Nov-99 Chris Abbey wrote: >> what exactly do you feel is unfriendly twoards netscape about >> developerworks?? the fact that it doesn't have one of those assinine >> "best viewed with" icons? &g

Re: I have core file from jikes (if anybody is interested)

1999-11-22 Thread Chris Abbey
what exactly do you feel is unfriendly twoards netscape about developerworks?? the fact that it doesn't have one of those assinine "best viewed with" icons? The bug system is jitterbug for crying out loud now if you're talking about some of the stuff served up from domino then I can almost see

FYI: we're an adminless list?

1999-10-29 Thread Chris Abbey
every recent mail from the list says: >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] response when trying to ask someone to finally drop [EMAIL PROTECTED] after two weeks of bounces: >This Message was undeliverable due to the fol

Re: java 1.1.7/Linux Thread switching

1999-10-29 Thread Chris Abbey
This is "known behaviour". The thread spec is very vague in regard to how it is supposed to work. There have been numerous discusions on the list in the past, check the archives for them. It basically boils down that there is no gaurentee in the threading spec that multiple threads will be interle

Re: classpath

1999-10-29 Thread Chris Abbey
At 08:45 10/29/99 -0600, Adam Carheden wrote: >java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/java/swing/plaf/metal/MetalTheme > at uci.uml.Main.main(Main.java:74) note that NoClassDefFoundError is not the same as ClassNotFound error. NoClassDefFound means that something this class needs was not f

Re: RMI and ClassFormatException

1999-10-27 Thread Chris Abbey
bad magic number means that the first 4 bytes of the delivered class file did not match 0xcafebabe. check that whatever server is handling the URL (i.e. a webserver) is sending it as binary, and that it isn't returning something like this: "404: file not found" ;) At 15:37 10/27/99 -0400, Paul Gr

Re: Re: mailto-protocol and it's result: UnknownHostExceptionmailhost or ConnectionRefused

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Abbey
At 17:53 10/26/99 -0400, Brian Wellington wrote: >On 26 Oct 1999, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > >> As said before, what java tries to do is: >> >> 1. Connect to System.getProperty("mail.host") on the smtp port (number >>25). >> 2. If 1 failed connect to localhost on the smtp port >> 3. If 2 fail

Re: Benchmark results for Linux JVMs (formatted for 70 columns)

1999-10-22 Thread Chris Abbey
>>To add another reason why nobody should draw conclusions quite yet: >>Kaffe's benchmarks were obtained with a version of its class libraries >>that was compiled with jikes, which is often considered to create >>the slowest bytecode among the different javac compilers. > >Is it? Can you point me

Re: Urgently Looking for RMIRegistry Implementation

1999-10-22 Thread Chris Abbey
rather than reimpl java.rmi.registry.Registry (hint ;) just test if the port is still bound. A quick shell script in a cron job to run netstat -an and cut down to the local port number, looking for listen. Or a java pgm that open's a socket to 1099. Or a java pgm that just does a lookup. Any would

Re: Linux JVMs

1999-10-18 Thread Chris Abbey
At 22:09 9/18/99 -0400, Michael Emmel wrote: >Also it produces the slowest bytecode on the planet. Great for development. [it == jikes] just because the bytecode is simple doesn't always mean it's bad/slow... I'm starting to see JITTERs good enough to turn straight forward bytecode such as that p

Re: Linux JVMs

1999-10-18 Thread Chris Abbey
At 00:03 10/19/99 +0200, Ian Corner wrote: >You mentioned in a previous email the ibmjdk, is that Jikes? If not what is nope >Jikes as I thought that was the IBM JVM. Do you happen to know what Java Jikes is a Java compiler, that is it takes in source code in the Java Language and emits Bytecod

Re: java_g

1999-10-18 Thread Chris Abbey
my understanding of the Sybase JDBC drivers is that they, like Oracle, include native code. Thus somewhere out there on your dasd around about the same place the jdbc drivers are (probably in a jar) there should be a lib?.so. You may only be using classes, but they could have native methods in

Re: java_g

1999-10-16 Thread Chris Abbey
At 23:21 10/16/99 -0600, Brandon Anderson wrote: > >OK, here is the thread dump, but like I already wrote in the previous >post I only get this while running java_g so I don't know if its really >relevant. > >*** panic: "../../../../src/share/javavm/runtime/classresolver.c", line >1285: assertion

Re: java_g

1999-10-16 Thread Chris Abbey
At 22:57 10/16/99 -0600, Brandon Anderson wrote: >If that's the case than why does my program run correctly when I compile >it and run it with javac/java but not when I compile it with untill you send us a stack trace and some actual concrete info about what you're doing and running, no one can a

Re: java_g

1999-10-16 Thread Chris Abbey
Overkill my friend... overkill. the _g versions don't change how they interact with the outside world, only how they work internally. Class files generated from javac and javac_g are the same. Unless you're debugging a failure of rmiregistry there is no need for rmiregistry_g. Please send the stac

Re: java_g

1999-10-16 Thread Chris Abbey
At 19:47 10/16/99 -0400, Michael Sinz wrote: >On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:47:02 -0600 (MDT), Brandon Anderson wrote: > >>Well, I tried to run my project with java_g as suggested. Unfortunately now I >>get a horrible RMI related thread dump. I was just wondering what exactly is >>the debug version of

Re: Runtime.traceMethodCalls()

1999-10-15 Thread Chris Abbey
you're using java_g right? try running a hello world class with the -tm command line switch to test the binaries: java_g -tm helloWorld Works for Me (TM) on blackdown 117 v1a, green or native. -=Chris cabbey at home dot net <*> http://members.home.net/cabbey I want a binary interf

Re: Benchmark results for Linux JVMs (formatted for 70 columns)

1999-10-12 Thread Chris Abbey
benchmarks are statistics. statistics are numbers. numbers can be made to lie. I make no judgement of the validity of Raja's numbers - I only wish to supply the grain of salt that I feel must accompany any benchmarks for them to be meaningfull. (and to prevent the Ziff- Davis reporters on the lis

Re: required Libraries

1999-10-05 Thread Chris Abbey
At 20:52 10/5/99 -0600, Jeff Galyan wrote: >Java *always* requires Motif and X libraries. Even on Solaris. End of >story. And thus the blackdown port is more advanced than the Solaris release. I'd highly recommend that you investigate the "not-static" binaries, these have no X widgets linked in

Re: JAVA on LINUX (RedHat 6.0)

1999-10-02 Thread Chris Abbey
those are the native_threads you asked for... the pthread impl on Linux has each thread take an space in the process table, which is what ps et al are reading. take a look at the archives for the list back around end of last year, begining of this one for the gory details. cabbey at home dot n

Re: NoClassDefFoundError and RH6.0

1999-09-29 Thread Chris Abbey
At 09:04 9/29/99 -0500, Roll, Greg wrote: >Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorld/class you didn't by any chance type "java HelloWorld.class" did you? cabbey at home dot net <*> http://members.home.net/cabbey I want a binary interface to the brain! Tod

Re: NoClassDefFoundError and RH6.0

1999-09-23 Thread Chris Abbey
A screen scrape of the exact command issued and the full stack trace given would help, as well as the value of your classpath envvar (if you have one). Otherwise we might as well be shooting in the dark. -=Chris At 10:38 9/23/99 -0400, Craig Soucie wrote: >This is probably something simple and ob

Re: Error loading libjava.so

1999-09-15 Thread Chris Abbey
does no one read readmes any more? You're running the glibc2.0 ("libc5") jdk binaries on a glibc2.1 ("glibc") based system. Please obtain the current 1.1 (117v3) jdk from: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html cabbey at home dot net <*> http://members.home.net/cabbey I

Re: jre and native thread

1999-09-15 Thread Chris Abbey
At 19:24 9/15/99 -0600, Carlos Alberto Román Zamitiz wrote: >I think your linux box doesn't have memory enough. >You should close others applications and try again. >(ups! that's sound like Windows). yeah, that would be windows ... >I'm not sure. Please, tell me if I'm wrong. I very much suspe

Re: Memory prolems

1999-09-11 Thread Chris Abbey
>I am aware of ways of increaseing the memory in java, but not in >appletviewer. from the tool docs for appletviewer (Solaris version): -J javaoption Passes through the string javaoption as a single argument to the Java interpreter which runs the appletviewer. The argument sh

Re: java + X11 memory leak

1999-08-11 Thread Chris Abbey
Rob, Michael and Nathan all have excelent points, and I agree with every one of them; and as Linux users this is an issue that hits us harder than most (when was the last time you saw slowaris running on 16Mb RAM? or less?); however, it shouldn't be as big an issue as it is. (Yes, I've seen X thra

Re: java + X11 memory leak

1999-08-10 Thread Chris Abbey
But is that memory allocated out of the chunk of VM reserved as the HEAP? I doubt it... I don't think it even blongs to the same process does it? Seems to me that it would have to belong to the Xserver's process... in the Xserver's address space and potentially on the Xserver's machine (as in a di

Re: Bad sync problem??

1999-08-06 Thread Chris Abbey
Everytime I hear someone say that adding thread yeilds or sleeps or changing priorities "fixed" the threading problems in a green threads implementation I immediately think they're depending on non-spec thread behavior. So far I haven't been wrong on the cases that have been dug into. Your imperic

Re: RMI on Linux

1999-08-04 Thread Chris Abbey
At 16:16 8/4/99 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Somehow i have got RMI based server running but without RMISecurityManager >installed from the server (prg). >Still i don't understand why after installing RMISecurityManager from the >program, it (prg) used to throw Exceptions saying permission den

Re: RMI on Linux

1999-08-02 Thread Chris Abbey
>Anyone been able to succesfully launch rmiregistry and bind >UnicastRemoteObjects to it on Linux? Yup, use a lot of it... works quite well. >First, do you know of any way to debug rmiregistry when it launches? The >reason I'm asking is this, when I launch rmiregistry "./rmiregistry 1099 >&" as

[OT] jikes [was headed OT: Re: Working with many .java files]

1999-07-30 Thread Chris Abbey
OK, there was a lot of discusion about jikes on this thread, and rather than post a bunch of little comments on each of the off shoot threads I'll bundle it all up here Riyad didn't miss anything, jikes can do a hell of a lot of files in the blink of an eye. The bigest reason is that it is wr

Re: Wrong CLASSPATH

1999-07-29 Thread Chris Abbey
> while (ii < args.lenth ){ // error with this ^^ length is a pseduo-field on array primitives, not a method. lenth is a typo. The compiler will accept one and not the other. :) I'd suggest looking into a more general Java newsgroup, as this has nothing to do wit

Re: Linux JDK applets on other platforms

1999-07-27 Thread Chris Abbey
h contains some of the same APIs as the Java Language; HOWEVER, it is not a JAVA VM by the definition of Java Technology, as presented by the trademark holders, Sun Microsystems Inc. At 10:50 7/27/99 -0400, Joseph B. Ottinger wrote: >On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Glenn Valenta wrote: > >

Re: Invalid DatagramSocket option

1999-07-23 Thread Chris Abbey
Is your kernel multicast aware? cabbey at home dot net <*> http://members.home.net/cabbey I want a binary interface to the brain! Today's opto-mechanical digital interfaces are just too slow! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: final variables in constructors (OT)

1999-07-16 Thread Chris Abbey
At 11:05 AM 7/16/99 +0200, Kontorotsui wrote: > >On 14-Jul-99 Michael Sinz wrote: >> The reason is that until the constructor is called, no instance data >> can be used. Note that you did not make this static final but rather >> final. This means there must be actual instance data to access this

Re: Java2D Servlets on Linux

1999-07-15 Thread Chris Abbey
>> >> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/awt/X11GraphicsEnvironment >> >> at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) >> > You're right, that's not the message you'd see with an unset DISPLAY >> > variable. That class should be in rt.jar... I wonder why you're not >> > finding it. >> >> Mmm indee

Re: Doubt

1999-06-30 Thread Chris Abbey
Simple infinite recursion. On 1.1.7 it blows the stack, if it does something different on 1.2 then you may have found a bug (my only system with 1.2 went down hard last night so I can't verify this). To make sure it isn't just still recursing try dropping the stack sizes as small as you can ( java

Re: JVM speed test suite?

1999-06-14 Thread Chris Abbey
At 06:50 AM 6/14/99 -0400, Jonathan Mark Brooks wrote: >Thanks! Unfortunately, the Volano test suite probably won't meet my >needs, since it is highly client/server oriented. that might actually be a good thing... unless what you want to benchmark is pure low level math or number crunching... in

Re: JVM speed test suite?

1999-06-13 Thread Chris Abbey
At 09:48 AM 6/13/99 -0400, Jonathan Mark Brooks wrote: >Can someone point me to a URL or resource that will allow me to >do a simple and reasonably accurate speed comparison? you do realize these are contradictory terms, do you not? I think Volano might make some of their stuff public... yup www

Re: Uninstalling Kaffe

1999-06-09 Thread Chris Abbey
Since you didn't say how you installed it I'll assume you're running RedHat and therefore had it installed for you (wasn't that just _so_ helpfull) rpm -ehv kaffe At 09:26 AM 6/10/99 +0800, Pascal Chong wrote: >Hi All ! > How do I uninstall kaffe ? I need to use the blackdown port ...

Re: RH6

1999-06-04 Thread Chris Abbey
>hi all, >I had jdk 117 working perfectly on RH5.2, and when I upgraded to 6.0 I >couldn't get my javac to work. I tells me someting about shared libraries. yup, libc changes. take a look in the archives of the list and you'll see lots of discusion. >Where can I get a copy of jdk that's know to

Re: jdk 1.1.7v3

1999-06-02 Thread Chris Abbey
#1 -- yes, FAQ 2.6 #2 -- java.sun.com At 09:02 PM 6/2/99 -0700, Rick Jesse wrote: > Is there a doc that explains what the different files are in the 1.1.7 >v3 release. That is, a high level description of what is in each of these >files: i18n_1.1.7-v3-glibc-x86.tar.gz >jdk_1.1.7-v3-glibc-x8

Re: [OT] Proposal: select(readfds, writefds, exceptfds)

1999-05-31 Thread Chris Abbey
[...suggestion to implement select in java snipped...] >Can this be done, and if so: Probably . . . certainly for the only platform we care about here ;) > why has it not been done already? Because it's platform dependent. Because no one has yet provided an argument

Re: Delivering Java Apps

1999-05-18 Thread Chris Abbey
.. it even accepts the -cp option in 1.2. > >Nathan > >- Original Message - >From: Chris Abbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 9:36 PM >Subject: Re: Delivering Java Apps > > >> Which brings up another point, unless

Re: Delivering Java Apps

1999-05-17 Thread Chris Abbey
Missed this thread when it happened... At 10:33 AM 5/16/99 -0400, Stephen Martin wrote: [...] >So my question is this, given a fairly simple java app (ie no native >methods, no rmi, no jdbc...). What is the best way for an end user >to run it without having it hog all the resources on their syste

Re: Swing

1999-05-17 Thread Chris Abbey
swing is pure java. http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/ should be a good start. At 08:26 PM 5/17/99 -0700, Kristian Guillaumier wrote: >Hi, > does anyone know where I can find a copy of Swing >for Linux? I've downloaded JDK 1.1.7 but can't find >Swing. !NEW!-=> <*> cabbey at home dot net http:/

Re: How to make a system call in Java

1999-05-12 Thread Chris Abbey
yup, that's what it would do alright. I assume you expected something like: [cabbey@tweedle]~$ ./a.out a.out was called [cabbey@tweedle]~$ java runabl a.out was called Inside try java.lang.UNIXProcess@156d6e [cabbey@tweedle]~$ Right? Wrong. This is Runtime.exec() functioning as designed. The p

Re: why do we need X11 to run purely command line java stuff?

1999-05-07 Thread Chris Abbey
At 08:34 PM 5/6/99 -0500, John N. Alegre wrote: > >On 04-May-99 Michael Sinz wrote: >> >> As it turns out, we are about to do a JDK 1.1.7 V2 release in order to work >> with the new glibc 2.1 (plus a few other fixes) and I was wondering if >> there is a problem with doing this change in the 1.1.x

Re: Looking for compiler

1999-05-04 Thread Chris Abbey
there are two serious* compilers for java on linux that I know of... javac that comes with the jdk and jikes from alphaworks.ibm.com. VB isn't a compiler; it's an overglorified scripting langauge bundled with a propriatary IDE. I think what you wanted was a reference to an IDE for Linux... there a

Re: SIGBUS in AllocSetAlloc & jdbc (fwd)

1999-05-03 Thread Chris Abbey
This isn't a fix, but it'll get you around the problem for now... I kid you not, it works with some of the code I run here where people did the same switch logic around rmi. -=Chris java -Djava.version=1.1.7 your.class.here o o \___/ At 12:05 PM 5/3/99 +0100, Peter T Mount wrote: > >[ I'm cc'

Re: Java/C benchmark

1999-05-03 Thread Chris Abbey
>> but I'm afraid I have to say your followup comparisons are unfair... > >hold on - this post was intended to be just a statement of fact, >not a complaint. I use blackdown and am very grateful for its existence. I didn't think it was a complaint at all... just can't see the logical basis for

Re: Installing TYA, been there? done that?

1999-05-03 Thread Chris Abbey
>./configure tells me it can't find my version. it's in your path right? I had the same thing first try because the configure script does `which java` and I hadn't used it yet in that shell (I don't put it in path unless I'm going to use it) so running my setup script fixed that up real quick. -=

Re: ...

1999-05-02 Thread Chris Abbey
At 04:45 PM 5/2/99 -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote: > I am not sure if this is an error, or my lack of knowledge. :) > :) (: University of Arizona :) well, you really wrote more... but my mail reader can't phatom the x-html yours sends... anyway, this is one of the things

RE: Access Violation

1999-05-02 Thread Chris Abbey
>Hi, >Sorry to ask again. Sorry to harp, but this relates to JAVA ON *LINUX* how? Cafe doesn't run on Linux, we don't use paths like "c:\", and I don't think you'll see "Fatal Error: (Access Violation at 015F:02F8D844)" in any kernel sources Linus approved. ---

Re: Java/C benchmark

1999-05-01 Thread Chris Abbey
Thanks for pointing out the article, made for interesting reading... but I'm afraid I have to say your followup comparisons are unfair... >One interesting point is that TYA is on various benchmarks >2-8 times slower than the Symantec jit included with Sun's java hmmm... one is developed by a l

Re: Possible Java Bug ?

1999-05-01 Thread Chris Abbey
I'm not 100% certain about this, but I think you might be bending the JLS a little bit in what you're trying to do I remember there being a _recommended_ but not _required_ notation recommended for compilers in the inner class specs... something like this$1 to access the enclosing object, and

solved Re: tya 1.3 compile problem

1999-04-28 Thread Chris Abbey
At 10:00 AM 4/28/99 +0200, Andreas Rueckert wrote: [...] >glibc-devel- Bingo! According to rpm I had glibc-devel-2.0.7-29 installed... but I had exactly ZERO of the files listed by rpm -ql glibc-devel on my system. Redo the install with --force and TYA compiled beautifully... :-) now back to rea

tya 1.3 compile problem

1999-04-26 Thread Chris Abbey
Howdy all, I'm having some problems compiling TYA1.3 on a stock RH5.2 box. I know I've compiled TYA1.1 before, on a different (non-RH) box, but this time around I can't seem to get past the configure step! the relevant output in config.log from gcc is: ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or di

Re: Problems with numeric keys on swingall.jar for jdk 1.1.7 for Linux

1999-04-23 Thread Chris Abbey
This may be a swing bug... I seem to remember something about latter versions of swing not working with 11x, but working with 12 in similar situations... something about a change (bug fix) in the event model for 11x that early swing was expecting to be broken, and newer swing is expecting to be fi

Re: Sun/bashing

1999-04-22 Thread Chris Abbey
At 11:24 AM 4/22/99 -0700, Paolo Ciccone wrote: >1) Sun pushed Java as a multiplatform language. Sun positioned Java as a language not bound to any realworld platform; and hence as being multiplatform capable. The only platform that's really involved when you run Java is the Java Virtual Machine.

Re: Demo's

1999-04-22 Thread Chris Abbey
At 01:32 AM 4/22/99 -0700, Steven Mills wrote: [...] >your web site. Can you send me a URL with the latest demo's? I'm [...] Since the demos are in java, and java is platform independent, the demos are platform independent... I'd suggest starting with the ones at http://developer.javasoft.com/

Re: jre

1999-04-22 Thread Chris Abbey
At 10:00 AM 4/23/99 +0800, Jayvee Vibar wrote: >Is there a java runtime environment for linux?? yes. http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html lists many mirrors you can choose from. All of them have it. Select any one, then select the level you want (i.e. JDK-1.1.7), then select your arc

Re: IBM JVM Port

1999-04-21 Thread Chris Abbey
>Linux doesn't look at >all like OS/2 (which is a pity), so it might be just as hard -- if not >harder -- to port IBM's JVM to Linux as it is to port Sun's. Let's not forget AIX, VM/ESA, and OS/390's unix services! All three are much closer to Linux

Re: ...

1999-04-20 Thread Chris Abbey
At 03:01 PM 4/20/99 -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote: >My intent here is not to stirr up emotions or cause an argument. Good. I don't think any of us want to see that mess start up again. > But after 12 unanswered emails I feel I have a right to comment. Feel free to comment. Unanswered emails shouldn'

Re: IBM JVM Port

1999-04-20 Thread Chris Abbey
Look back about a week in this list for the answer At 12:32 PM 4/21/99 +1000, Shafiek Savahl wrote: >Hello All > >IBM have just released their version of a JVM for Win32 which they claim >is 30% faster than Hotspot from Sun and also Micrsoft's VM. They also >plan to be giving it away. From

Re: RMI troubles

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Abbey
Can the registry find the _Stub and interface classes? I'll bet not... if the exception basically says "remote exception ... class not found" then that's your problem. The registry process need the _Stub class, and inorder to load that it needs the interfaces that it implements. As with anything,

Re: Running Processes

1999-04-19 Thread Chris Abbey
What kind of error? I have no problems calling the single string signature of exec, the command you show here executed, both as an array and as a single string ( "/bin/sh -c grep -in main *.java > list &" ) although that didn't do the same as the three element array... because the two are not the

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