Re: Translations of Jakarta

2005-01-06 Thread Shinobu Kawai
Hi Henri, We're discussing these issues at JaJakarta right now. I'll get back to you when we reach a conclusion. (Whenever that will be..) > The translations are great ideas, but all three translations have issues: > > As a general issue, there's the question of which community is managing > t

Re: [OT] Which Linux distribution for Java development?

2005-01-06 Thread Felipe Leme
Opt for one with support for NPTL - RH 9 was the first mainstream distro to have it available, but I think most of then supports it now: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/JavaTechandLinux/RedHat/ Another aspect that I think it's very important is good fonts - that's the ma

Re: [OT] Which Linux distribution for Java development?

2005-01-06 Thread Dain Sundstrom
One thing you *may* care about is using certified Java VM. Sun requires that a VM be certified on an exact distribution, so if you use a VM certified for Red Hat on say Mandrake, you are using a non-certified installation. I know this sound incredibly lame, but it is very important for projec

Re: [OT] Which Linux distribution for Java development?

2005-01-06 Thread robert burrell donkin
i'd say now that provided you go for an up-to-date distribution, you shouldn't notice much difference between most distro's when it comes to java (so you probably want to choose on some other basis). the biggest choice is how you install your java: the traditional way (stuff everything somewher

Re: [OT] Which Linux distribution for Java development?

2005-01-06 Thread Alain Gaeremynck
Mandrake is the most User centric desktop distro that i know of. It is base on the red hat core and it has a control panel application to manage the configuration of the different componant. Since i was fortunate enough to get a lot of help when i first switched from windows to Linux i am mor

Re: [OT] Which Linux distribution for Java development?

2005-01-06 Thread Henri Yandell
Tbh, probably not a lot of difference, especially compared to the differences between the distros themselves. Avoid going to the *BSD's. I'd recommend not using the Java bits that come with the distro, but installing it all yourself. Otherwise, choose the distro for the other reasons. As a deve

[OT] Which Linux distribution for Java development?

2005-01-06 Thread Dennis Lundberg
I'm considering moving to a Linux environment for my Java development. Which distros would be a good choice and which should one stay away from? -- Dennis Lundberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comman

Re: [site] clean up

2005-01-06 Thread matthew.hawthorne
Martin Cooper wrote: I wonder if there's a link checker doodad that we could run on *.a.o, perhaps as a cron job, and have it send out Gump-like nag messages when something breaks? I've used this before: http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/ And it seems to be ok.

Re: [site] clean up

2005-01-06 Thread Martin Cooper
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:57:38 +, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6 Jan 2005, at 09:09, Danny Angus wrote: > > > Robert, > > > >> and is any planning needed so that no toes are stepped on? > > > > An advance heads-up would warn other projects which might link to those > > pa

Re: [site] clean up

2005-01-06 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 6 Jan 2005, at 09:09, Danny Angus wrote: Robert, and is any planning needed so that no toes are stepped on? An advance heads-up would warn other projects which might link to those pages. Though as a redirect wouldn't break the links I guess its not that important, James has been bitten by Jakar

Re: Last call for comments Was: [site] next step - 3-tier + welcome

2005-01-06 Thread Henri Yandell
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Danny Angus wrote: There are a couple of tweaky things - like the font seems a little bigger than it needs to be, I twiddled with James css y'day, I think the fonts there are finally OK http://james.apache.org the (extremely simple) css is in svn if you want to look. I'd be int

Re: Last call for comments Was: [site] next step - 3-tier + welcome

2005-01-06 Thread Danny Angus
> There are a couple of tweaky things - like the font seems a little > bigger than it needs to be, I twiddled with James css y'day, I think the fonts there are finally OK http://james.apache.org the (extremely simple) css is in svn if you want to look. I'd be interested in theiveing the 3tier xsl

Re: Last call for comments Was: [site] next step - 3-tier + welcome

2005-01-06 Thread sebb
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:57:10 -0800, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:19:37 -0500 (EST), Henri Yandell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.apache.org/~bayard/jakarta-3tier.html > > > > Rolled back to remove the table->div header change for the moment. I'd

Re: [site] next step - 3-tier + welcome

2005-01-06 Thread Danny Angus
> So either: a) we should roll back to the table style for header and > footer for the moment; or b) we should just ignore it and wait for > complaints to come in :) > Does a) sound okay? When you sell it like that its unopposable! d. ***

Re: [site] clean up

2005-01-06 Thread Danny Angus
Robert, > and is any planning needed so that no toes are stepped on? An advance heads-up would warn other projects which might link to those pages. Though as a redirect wouldn't break the links I guess its not that important, James has been bitten by Jakarta changes before, though I hasten to add