Re: 1.2 & threads

1999-05-31 Thread Ken McNeil
--- Christopher Seawood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using the 1.2pre1 release on a RH6.0 system. I > started developing > this app that uses Swing under NT using Java > Workshop 3.0 with Sun's 1.2 > release. I tried running the app under Linux and it > immediately exits. I > don't explic

Re: 1.2 Certification info

1999-05-31 Thread Ken McNeil
--- Ozer Irfan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I search information about Java 1.2 certification > exam. > > Have you exam simulation applet ? > Or documentation ? If you are taking one of Sun's Java certification exams, here is the main web page for all of Sun's educational services http://suned.s

Re: J 1.2 Applet wont run in browser

1999-05-30 Thread Ken McNeil
--- "Alexander F. Hartner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been programming in Java 1.1.7 for a while > now... and would like to upgrade to J1.2. I have > been using Linux and Windows and it works great. So > far I have not been able to run J1.2 applets in any > browser on my Windows clients

Re: Sun released jdk1.2.2 in prelease form.

1999-05-28 Thread Ken McNeil
--- Edgar Villanueva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good news. > > Sun released jdk1.2.2 in early access in > developer.javasoft.com. > I know it's only windows but we need to bang on it > so that > when we get the source code for linux it's in good > shape. Actually what you can do is just grab t

Re: free obfuscator available [truly OT/BS]

1999-05-26 Thread Ken McNeil
--- Zhichao Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah. And nobody traded with the People's Republic > of China. > What do you mean on this ? American traded with > People's Republic of > China now. Nobody means Americans are not human > beings? They are > probably not since they throw bombs

Re: free obfuscator available

1999-05-24 Thread Ken McNeil
--- Paul Matthew Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Louis-David Mitterrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It might be of interest to the java-linux > community to know there > > is a free and excellent class file obfuscator out > there. It is > > available at > > > > http://www.elegant-

Re: (0.3 * 3) = 0,8999999999 ????

1999-05-13 Thread Ken McNeil
> Thats not a bug, thats just typical behaviour with > floating point > algorithm, try to compile and run this little C > program on your linux machine: > > #include > void main() { > double d1 = 0.3, d2 = 3, d3; > > d3 = d1 * d2; > > printf("%20.20lf", d3); > } But! Using egcs, C++, an

Re: Ability to reload class files

1999-05-10 Thread Ken McNeil
> What I would like to know is this: how difficult > would it be to reload the > definition of a class if objects of the class had > already been > instantiated, then destroyed and garbage-collected? > java.lang.ClassLoader caches Class objects so that > class files don't have > to be loaded or

Re: Call To Action on Java Lobby

1999-05-06 Thread Ken McNeil
> There has been a request on the Java Lobby > www.javalobby.org > > To reform the java lobby into a grass roots campaign > to allow Java > developers > to take a lager role in the determination of java's > future. > > I urge all the members of this list to look at the > request and join the > J

What does Linux on UltraSPARC mean for Sun?

1999-05-05 Thread Ken McNeil
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/05/ultrasparc.idg/index.html I know this is not /. but I felt that this CNN article had a lot of relevance for the Java-Linux community. It talks about the business choices that are being made regarding Solaris/UltraSPARC and Linux. It is quite interesting an

Sun + ISO Round 2

1999-05-05 Thread Ken McNeil
Well Sun said last week that they would announce their new plans for Java standardization Tuesday. There a day late, but it still came. Here's a News.com article about it... http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36173,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.h It looks like the speculation that Sun would try to go thro

Re: Sun Bashing 2

1999-05-02 Thread Ken McNeil
--- Maksim Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off I want to say that my previous posts were > done late on friday, > which is probably not the best time to write > level-headed posts so I > apologise if my previous posts were too emotional. I know the feeling :^) > On the point of standardi

Re: Sun Bashing 2

1999-04-30 Thread Ken McNeil
First off you have taken my intentions to an extreme. I only wish to discuss these issues openly and in no way am I attempting to create anything. And also you have highlighted some things in my original post that are not truly significant to my message. I will point this out below. > > How i

Re: Sun Bashing 2

1999-04-30 Thread Ken McNeil
>Exactly competition is good. But I'm afraid a differ with you Ken on >what competition, I would prefer just competing implmentations, not >competing platforms (though even that in some ways is a good idea, eg. >one OS is not a good idea). You're right on both, within the Java(c) world competing

Re: Parametric types proposal - where?

1999-04-30 Thread Ken McNeil
> > I'll second you on the bugs issue and the problem with Suns 1001 API's > > approach. However to be fair you probably picked a bad eg. with > > parametric types as Sun has just put up a proposal for them. > >Can anyone please point me to this parametric types proposal? Thanks. It's on the JDC

Re: Sun Bashing 2

1999-04-30 Thread Ken McNeil
>I have mixed feelings (to say the least) about parametric/generic stuff >in java so I will not comment further on this. What are these mixed feelings you're referring to? At one point in the past I thought generic programming was only necessary if you didn't have a common base class, like in C

Re: Sun Bashing 2

1999-04-30 Thread Ken McNeil
>first I'd like to appologize for some of the comments I made >- I'm aware now that they could be understood as much more >offensive than I intended them to be. Good. I felt that you brought up some good points (in between the emotional sections) and I wish to keep this discussion going. > > >

Re: ...

1999-04-30 Thread Ken McNeil
>Has anyone checked out the new STATUS page? oh wow... that >kicks ass... well when its done atleast... Though I was content with the silence before it is nice to see that the blackdown developers have responded to this. Maybe now this list will not be as repetitive. _

Re: Sun Bashing 2

1999-04-29 Thread Ken McNeil
>I usually can't stand flame bait like this but I wanted to point out one >thing. How is this "flaim bait"? This is a topic that has been thrown around by plenty, and unless you work for Sun I see no reason why this should seem offensive to you. >This link is the paper 'Sun Community Source Li

Re: Sun Bashing 2

1999-04-29 Thread Ken McNeil
>I'll second you on the bugs issue and the problem with Suns 1001 API's >approach. However to be fair you probably picked a bad eg. with >parametric types as Sun has just put up a proposal for them. I thank you for pointing this out, but they should have responded earlier. By not implementing t

Sun Bashing 2

1999-04-29 Thread Ken McNeil
I have been programming in Java for over a year, using it mainly because of its technical merits but also because it seemed to be the "anti-Microsoft". >From the beginning I had the utmost respect for Sun and their mission to build Java into the greatest thing since sliced bread. Yet, lately I

Re: Java +c/c++

1999-04-08 Thread Ken McNeil
>I have token a lloke at the Sun's JNI site. I leared a lot from that WEB >site. However in the 5th step -- to create a shared library, it is just >Solaries/win examples. I am working on Linux box. when I try to comiple >the shared library as following: > >(the original command is cc -G -I/usr