Re: Request: No more generic Java questions

2000-12-09 Thread Matt Welsh
I am also counting all of the responses. The following threads in the last month or so I consider unrelated to Linux: UnknownHostException (3 messages) follow-up Re: UnknownHostException (2 messages) Is it possible to start Java application ... (2 messages) Is there a solution? (1 message) Start

Re: Request: No more generic Java questions

2000-12-09 Thread Jacob Nikom
Hi, For the last 3 days it was about 20 messages on the java-linux list. Two or three of them (including responses) were generic. It is not huge traffic, comparing with one couple of years ago. I would be more concern that we have not enough questions. If this is the case, the mailing list is

Re: Request: No more generic Java questions

2000-12-09 Thread Rousseau, John
Many of the people on this list subscribe to many lists in order to keep on top of changes in important areas of the industry. The noise is cumulative between lists. I would gladly accept no traffic on this list for weeks at a time to cut down on the noise. This is a list designed to disseminat

Re: Request: No more generic Java questions

2000-12-09 Thread David Brownell
I agree with Matt, on the purely selfish reasons. There are lots of places to ask generic questions, and the main ones I know of that Linux-specific questions get dealt with are this one (focussed on Sun's version of Java) and the java-discuss list hosted for GCJ/GCC users/developers/... (clearly

Re: Request: No more generic Java questions

2000-12-09 Thread Nathan Meyers
Matt Welsh wrote: > I am also counting all of the responses. The following threads in the > last month or so I consider unrelated to Linux: Matt, I think you're giving short shrift to those who are moving to Linux from doing Java on other platforms - a prime audience for this list. A few of the

2 out 3 jvms don't work properly on my system

2000-12-09 Thread wyrd
Hi all, I've come across a situation that's very puzzling to me. I've been trying jBoss on a couple of my Linux systems ( RH 6.2 + various updates ). When I run jBoss with IBM's JDK 1.3 is seems to run fine ( no long term testing done yet ), but both the Sun and Blackdown JDK 1.3 fail to sta