difference between Blackdown's JVM and Sun's?

2002-01-24 Thread Matthew Kennedy


What differences are there between Sun's JVM and Blackdowns? Is the
Blackdown organization some kind of Java licensee?


Thanks

Matt


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a build for gcc3.1.x?

2002-07-16 Thread Matthew Kennedy


Many Gentoo Linux users, including myself, have chosen to build their
systems with gcc3.1. Everything works great except for Java JNI
interfaces (eg. the plugin and Mozilla). These expect to be linked
against gcc2.x libs. It looks like this:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so
[/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so:
undefined symbol: __vt_17nsGetServiceByCID]

What I think is required, is a build of the jdk on gcc3.1. This is bug
#4694590
(http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4694590.html --
you have to sign in to view it). 

Is there any chance of providing gcc2 and gcc3 builds of the
next/current release of the jdk/jre/java3d etc.?

Matt


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re: a build for gcc3.1.x?

2002-07-22 Thread Matthew Kennedy

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 11:19, Jack Howarth wrote:
>I hate to have to tell you but it will get even worse now.
> The gcc maintainers just decided to change the c++ abi yet again.
> They are releasing gcc 3.1.1 next week to be followed soon by a
> gcc 3.2 release with all the remaining abi changes. The gcc 3.1.x
> trunk will be considered orphaned at that point and all development
> will be aimed at gcc 3.2.1. So we will need 3 builds of jdk soon.

Ugh. That sucks. Not that it's a problem for a distribution like Gentoo
Linux (we're using) where it's trivial rebuild things that need it when
one of the ABI change... but that implies the thing has code you can
actually recompile.

I need to start looking for free alternatives I guess

Matt


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Re: Newbie version questions

2002-07-30 Thread Matthew Kennedy

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 13:10, Thomas Cowdery wrote:
>  I want to set up a Linux box to test Java apps/applets (and to learn a little about 
>Linux).  As the subject implies, I'm a newbie to Linux.  I started by reading some 
>FAQ's about hardware questions, but they always approach the problem from the 
>opposite direction that I'm coming from.  I don't want to know if a given version 
>will run on my machine.  Having already checked out the boxed versions of Red Hat, 
>SuSe, and Mandrake, I realize that the latest-greatest isn't likely to work 
>satisfactorily on my hardware.  

You might reconsider the latest and greatest distribution as its likely
they will provide GCJ (the Java compiler in GCC).

> Instead, I'd like some opinions on what version of any Linux distro WOULD run 
>reasonably well on the hardware that I have, and what version of Java might be 
>available for that version of Linux.
>
> What I have to work on is an older (AMD) 233 Mhz machine with 64 MB of memory and a 
>hard drive with about 2 GB free.  I can free up more HD space if I need to.

You might consider Gentoo Linux. It will take you quite a few hours to
install it on that hardware (as it builds everything from scratch), but
after that you can say for sure that you've gotten the maximum out of
your hardware.

There is direct support for the IBM, Sun, Blackdown, Kaffe, Jikes,
GCC3.x JRE/JDKs/compilers etc. Along with most other development tools
(Netbeans, Eclipse, Jedit, Junit, Ant, etc.). 

There's also a great tool called "java-config" which will let you switch
between several installed JDK/JREs very easily (great for testing).


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Re: newbie is looking for documentation

2002-08-30 Thread Matthew Kennedy

Jochen Georges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> hello 
> 
> i installed the jdk 1.3.1 on my debian woody and it runs well :)
> 
> now i'm looking
> ... for command-documentation(
>   e.g. what does that mean? 
>   "java -Djava.security.manager -cp /pfad-zum-programm/geonext.jar 
>   geonext/Geonext"
> )
> 
> ... for API-documentation.
> 
> thanks for any help!
> 
> beste gruesse
> jochen
> 
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/index.html

and in general,

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/infodocs/

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