Open-Source environments for Java (was: Re: java)

2005-05-22 Thread Rogério Brito
Do you really need proper Java from Sun/IBM? If not, then you can use one of the OpenSource offerings already in testing/sarge (including sablevm, kaffe, GNU classpath, jikes, among others). You can have a reasonably good development system if you install the package free-java-sdk. It *won't* be

Re: Open-Source environments for Java (was: Re: java)

2005-05-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 22 May 2005 08:38 am, Rogério Brito wrote: Do you really need proper Java from Sun/IBM? Unless things have changed drastically in the past year or so, if you're doing ANYTHING with a GUI, yes, you do. Hal