Re: Deprecated `Thread.stop()' in forthcoming JDK 1.2. Why?

1998-11-23 Thread Pavel Tolkachev
> Right. Sleeping and blocking I/O are interrupted by the interrupt > mechanism; when this happens, the I/O methods and the sleep method > throw an appropriate exception that tells you it is interrupted. I/O methods do not throw, at least not on NT Sun's JDKs and API documentation does not state

Re: Subject: Sun may open up Java more?

1998-11-23 Thread Ernst de Haan
Hi Blaise and all, blaise toad wrote: > > There are in my mind 3 advantages for SUN to do so: > > 1- change perception that java is proprietary Agreed. > 2- not pay for all of javasoft and get quality software Major issue imho. Sun/JavaSoft really has a _big_ problem. They're trying to devel

[INFO] JavaLobby

1998-11-23 Thread Ernst de Haan
Hey all, Do you all know JavaLobby? It really a _great_ source for Java information, articles, opinions, etc. They provide a means to post your own articles. Result: Up to date Java news 24 hours a day! Networked society prospers! http://www.javalobby.org/ BTW: This is not an advertisement, mo

Re: Deprecated `Thread.stop()' in forthcoming JDK 1.2. Wh

1998-11-23 Thread peter . pilgrim
In fact the JDBC provides anyway to handle this in `Statement.cancel()' which allows an executed SQL query or update to be halted from _another_ thread. In other words the CancellableThread or equivalance is the responsibility of the JDBC driver implementor not the JDBC user. Careful programmi

Re: Keyboard input problems

1998-11-23 Thread peter . pilgrim
I have a whiteboard edition of Together/C++ for NT4.0 at work. I thought that you had to explicitly get TC++ to scan by choosing the menuitem from the menu bar. First, I did not know it did not worked in parallel with other tools?! Are you using TJ's built in editor to work? Don't. Get Emacs

Re: Deprecated `Thread.stop()' in forthcoming JDK 1.2. Why?

1998-11-23 Thread Michael Sinz
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:47:39 +0300, Pavel Tolkachev wrote: >> Right. Sleeping and blocking I/O are interrupted by the interrupt >> mechanism; when this happens, the I/O methods and the sleep method >> throw an appropriate exception that tells you it is interrupted. > >I/O methods do not throw, a

why cant my netscape execute JDK-1.1.* - progs ?

1998-11-23 Thread Michael Brunsteiner
i got JDK-1.1.6 for Linux (SUsE) and netscape 4.5 ... i downloaded a java-tutorial with included examplefiles from the www the example-applet-files are provided both as 1.0.* - and 1.1.* -versions ... opening these files with my browser works well with the 1.0.* - versions but fails for 1.1.*

Re: why cant my netscape execute JDK-1.1.* - progs ?

1998-11-23 Thread peter . pilgrim
On my netscape 4.05 at home (and at work) I had put `${MOZILLA_HOME}/java/classes/java40.jar' explicitly in my ``CLASSPATH'' environment variable. (preferably set this in my ~/.tcshrc) Pete __ Reply Separator _ Subject: why cant my ne

Is Swing available?

1998-11-23 Thread Patrick Hays
First, my apologies for what I know has to be a dumb question. I just started trying to use java with RHL 5.2 and downloaded all the tarballs for jdk, jre, etc. and then used the examples from the Java NutShell book to "exercise" the installation with everything fine except for examples needing s

Java programming env (newbie question)

1998-11-23 Thread Mike Song
Hello all, I installed RH Linux 5.2 and I found that 'javac', 'java' and 'appletviewer' are already there and I am able to compile and run simple java programs. The question is: Does this mean that I already have JDK installed? Thanks a lot Mike

Re: Subject: Sun may open up Java more?

1998-11-23 Thread Nelson Minar
>Major issue imho. Sun/JavaSoft really has a _big_ problem. They're >trying to develop both a (1) freely available standards (most of them >with a reference implementation) and (2) software that is supposed to >bring in money, all at the same time. That's why I say that Sun's actions look to me l

Re: Java programming env (newbie question)

1998-11-23 Thread Ernst de Haan
Mike Song wrote: > > Hello all, > > I installed RH Linux 5.2 and I found that 'javac', 'java' and > 'appletviewer' > are already there and I am able to compile and run simple java programs. > > The question is: > Does this mean that I already have JDK installed? You sure do. Congratulations! ;

Re: Is Swing available?

1998-11-23 Thread Martin Sorgatz
Patrick Hays wrote: > First, my apologies for what I know has to be a dumb question. > > I just started trying to use java with RHL 5.2 and downloaded all the > tarballs for jdk, jre, etc. and then used the examples from the Java > NutShell book to "exercise" the installation with everything fine

native threads problems with 1.1.7

1998-11-23 Thread dog
i have a fairly complex application that at one point involves the interaction of 2 threads: thread1 synchronizes on object1 and wait()s. thread2 waits for some network input and then does some processing, then tries to notifyAll() on object1. however, thread1 has already continued processing. t

Re: Deprecated `Thread.stop()' in forthcoming JDK 1.2. Why?

1998-11-23 Thread Michael Sinz
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:45:29 -0500 (EST), Nelson Minar wrote: >>The whole Thread.stop() thing is very nasty in non-green-thread >>systems. The core OS may not support the needed mechanisms to cleanly >>stop a thread at various points (such as during a blocked I/O) > >URGH! So the entire Java lang

Re: Is Swing available?

1998-11-23 Thread hiro
Hi From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Hays) Subject: Is Swing available? Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:21:05 -0500 > I just started trying to use java with RHL 5.2 and downloaded all the > tarballs for jdk, jre, etc. and then used the examples from the Java > NutShell book to "exercise" the installati

Re: Is Swing available?

1998-11-23 Thread peter . pilgrim
Try `http://www.javasoft.com/products/jfc'. Swing/JFC is 100% pure Java so you just need to download the zip file from JavaSoft after you registerly freely with them. I would advise you to get the Swing/JFC 1.1 Beta 3 Pete __ Reply Separator

Can you use Java as a Job Scheduler?

1998-11-23 Thread peter . pilgrim
[WORK RELATED] Before I jump off the deep end. I presume there is nothing to prevent Java being used a job scheduler. That is the JVM creates say 3 worker threads and each of these worker thread executes a process like `/bin/ls -l ; sleep 60'. I asked because I have called `Process.waitFor()' t

RMIC-Replacement Jiffy

1998-11-23 Thread Bjoern Bayard
Hi! Holger Joest ( mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) has developed a replacement for rmic called jiffy. It is written in C++ an believe it or not - it's a little bit faster ;-) Jiffy is GPL and at the moment only available for Linux :) Download at http://www.ios-online.de/jiffy.html . Enjoy Björn Baya

[CANCEL] Re: Can you use Java as a Job Scheduler?

1998-11-23 Thread peter . pilgrim
Of the course, the thread won't block itself if I do not put `synchronized run' in the Runnable object!!! EOT __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Can you use Java as a Job Scheduler? Author: Peter Pilgrim at London Date:23/11/98 15:30

RMIC-Replacement Jiffy

1998-11-23 Thread Håkan Thörngren
> "Bjoern" == Bjoern Bayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can it add a correct 'static final long serialVersionUID = ' in the generated stub file? Bjoern> Hi! Holger Joest ( mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) has developed a Bjoern> replacement for rmic called jiffy. It is written in C++ an Bjoe

Anybody know of VCR Tape GUI???

1998-11-23 Thread Dale E Anglin
Hi, Does anybody know where I can find Java class(es) that handle the "VCR Tape" paradigm? Expected functionality includes "Play", "Stop", "Pause", etc. or something similar. I looked in the archives and could not find anything along this line - I am sorry if this question has already been aske

Re: Deprecated `Thread.stop()' in forthcoming JDK 1.2. Why?

1998-11-23 Thread Nelson Minar
>The whole Thread.stop() thing is very nasty in non-green-thread >systems. The core OS may not support the needed mechanisms to cleanly >stop a thread at various points (such as during a blocked I/O) URGH! So the entire Java language is weakened to support OSes with poor threading support. Even *

Re: RMIC-Replacement Jiffy

1998-11-23 Thread mlorton
> Holger Joest ( mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) has developed a replacement > for rmic called jiffy. It is written in C++ an believe it or not - > it's a little bit faster ;-) Why? RMIC is run only when the interface changes, i.e., rarely. Even then, it takes only a second to run. What's the payof

Re: Keyboard input problems [and TYA...]

1998-11-23 Thread Albrecht Kleine
> Hi, > Out of interest, did you have any problems getting Together to work with > TYA? With TYAs default configuration, Together crashed (on either JDK, with > any thread model) whenever I clicked on any object in the diagram view. I Next TYA release will STOP running you into this problem :) T

Re: Java programming env (newbie question)

1998-11-23 Thread Matt Welsh
You probably have Kaffe installed, which is a free Java Virtual Machine replacement. mdw Mike Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > > I installed RH Linux 5.2 and I found that 'javac', 'java' and > 'appletviewer' > are already there and I am able to compile and run simple java pr

Re: Is Swing available?

1998-11-23 Thread Patrick Hays
Many thanks for all the replies. I am downloading JFC 1.1 beta 3 as I type this... Patrick Hays wrote: > > First, my apologies for what I know has to be a dumb question. > > I just started trying to use java with RHL 5.2 and downloaded all the > tarballs for jdk, jre, etc. and then used the ex