Setup a free java development environment

2005-03-18 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I'm new to Java development and Debian, but it couldn't stay unnoticed to me that there is some effort placed in using free Java alternatives. I'd be happy to support this effort, but it's all very confusing to me (too many alternatives, basically) and I still need the Sun Java on my machi

Re: java-gcj-compat : a missing link?

2005-03-18 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniele Cruciani wrote: | Yes, I read thread and I agree with that. | | But I also need a working Eclipse and it should be 3.0 because of | plugins compatibility. [...] Daniele, ~Personally, I am building Eclipse from source right now and using that

Re: java-gcj-compat : a missing link?

2005-03-18 Thread Daniele Cruciani
Yes, I read thread and I agree with that. But I also need a working Eclipse and it should be 3.0 because of plugins compatibility. I am just doing it by/for myself (with help of other's work of course). And I see that in RedHat (Fedora) use /usr/share/java-ext, I do not have a Fedora and I do n

Re: java-gcj-compat : a missing link?

2005-03-18 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniele Cruciani wrote: | I miss that new upstream java-gcj-compat package in javac use this: | | exec /usr/bin/gij-4.0 \ | -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins.db \ | -Djava.ext.dirs=/usr/lib/java-ext:/usr/share/java-ext \ |

Java debcamp?

2005-03-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
This proposal has been circulating on IRC for a while, and I believe it is time it made it to the mailing list. In debian-edu, we have development gatherings fairly often, both to coordinate the developers and focus the effort, and to increase the motivation among the group of people participatin

Re: java-gcj-compat : a missing link?

2005-03-18 Thread Daniele Cruciani
I miss that new upstream java-gcj-compat package in javac use this: exec /usr/bin/gij-4.0 \ -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins.db \ -Djava.ext.dirs=/usr/lib/java-ext:/usr/share/java-ext \ com.sun.tools.javac.Main ${1+"$@"} with s/plugins.db/eclipse.db/ that i think

java-gcj-compat : a missing link?

2005-03-18 Thread Daniele Cruciani
Hi, I get this package from Ubuntu (there is a newer release), but I can make Eclipse understand that this is a JRE home directory unless I do a /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/jre/lib/rt.jar linked to /usr/share/java/libgcj-4.0.0.jar Just that and all work fine. This is just a trick for

CLASSPATH

2005-03-18 Thread Martin Donaubauer
Hi EVERYBODY! I have developed java programs on the Windows platform. Now I will develope with Eclipse on Debian. But how can I set the $CLASS_PATH? I have just recognized to make for jdk/bin/java a hard link to /usr/bin! I like Debian, but I have to fight ;) best regards, don -- To UNSUBSCR