JRE error when installing Oracle8i

1999-12-08 Thread Bambang Lestari
Dear All, I'm using RedHat 6.1 (with GNOME). When I was trying to install Oracle8i (with doing ./runInstaller), I got the following message: "Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Please wait Error in CreateOUIProcess():-1: Bad address" FYI, I've already installed J

Re: Sun/Inprise/GPL Linux JDK

1999-12-08 Thread Nathan Meyers
Tony Dean wrote: > 1) Sun owns the Java trademark. They have published the VM spec and > the language spec. They permit rogue ports from the specs. There is already an excellent "rogue port" in the Kaffe project, although "cleanroom implementation" is a better term. Interestingly, even the sp

jdk 1.2.2rc3 segmentation fault, pt. 2

1999-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
Please forgive me for the abruptness of my original message. I was rushing out the door when I sent it. What else other than my original email is needed to answer the question, "Why is javac segfaulting?" Typing "java" at the # prompt simply, and correctly, I think, dumps a list of command line

Passing objects in jni

1999-12-08 Thread Rodrigo Gidra
Hi there!   First i would like to apologise about the newbie question but i couldnt find info about such topic.   Is there a way to pass a Complex Object from java to legacy code using jni?   Thanks in advance.   Rodrigo Gidra      

Re: Sun/Inprise/GPL Linux JDK

1999-12-08 Thread Tony Dean
Nelson, There are a number of possible scenarios that your comments could blossom into. Nelson Minar wrote:   There are deeper problems lurking underneath, though, having to do with Sun's control of Java. Sun isn't interested in the ultimate goals of free software, and they're powerful enough to

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:44:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a single communication with the VP of engineering at inprise, telling > me that they were interested in dedicated some resources to assist with the > port. I provided him with Steve Byrne's contact information and that was

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread karl
Paolo Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > > > What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or support (testing >and bugfixing) the > > Blackdown team in their porting effort, if they just wanted to have (and this >

jdk 1.2.2rc3 segmentation fault

1999-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
This is my system & what I did: - My kernel is 2.2.12 on Mandrake 6.0 - Before I installed jdk 1.2.2, I upgraded glibc 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 by applying an rpm of the pre-compiled binaries. I did a test upgrade, which worked ok, then applied these binary rpms: - glibc-devel-2.1.2-17 - glibc-

Blackdown still rox!

1999-12-08 Thread Ernst de Haan
Blackdown team, Here's a copy of a message I dropped at javalobby. Just want to let you know there are still a lot of people who really appreciate your work, and I hate to see you guys misacknowledged. I'm sure there are hundreds or thousands of Linux users who feel just like me. I would really

Re: Sun and Inprise Java 2 announcement

1999-12-08 Thread Ben Swanner
Fools fighting over scraps while the m$ buzzards eat caviar Jacob Nikom wrote: > I still cannot completely agree with Brian - credit not > "should be given", but must be given. If you work for the > company and you patented something, the company owns the > patent, but you still own your name on

Re: Thanks for the effort

1999-12-08 Thread David Milner
Here ! Here !!! I second the statement made in this memo. We silent, but grateful users in the linux community own you and the entire blackdown team a case of beer -- each! Thanks david Jo Uthus wrote: > Since we all (to some extent) agree that we have to have a JDK/JRE > 1.2(.2 or whatever) ru

Re: JDK 1.2.2 RC3 and RC1 VolanoMark results

1999-12-08 Thread John Neffenger
Hi Rachit, > how does it compare to the other two java ports at high connections? > your page i assume wasn't updated after you ran the 4000 connections > test. just curious. IBM JDK 1.1.8 on Linux can't get over 500 connections (a bug confirmed by IBM). Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 fails at just ov

Re: JDK 1.2.2 RC3 and RC1 VolanoMark results

1999-12-08 Thread Peter Eddy
It's available on Volano's site at http://www.volano.com/benchmarks.html Peter Joseph Shraibman wrote: > > Is there any way I can get a hold of the benchmark software? I'd like to > try the tya compiler with blackdown's jdk and see how it stacks up. > ---

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:14:11PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > Paolo Ciccone writes: > > Paolo> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > >> What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or > >> support (testing and bugfixing) the Blackd

Re: JDK 1.2.2 RC3 and RC1 VolanoMark results

1999-12-08 Thread John Neffenger
Hi Joseph, > Is there any way I can get a hold of the benchmark software? I'd like to > try the tya compiler with blackdown's jdk and see how it stacks up. See the section called "Download" at: http://www.volano.com/benchmarks.html John Neffenger --

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:52:02PM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:20:46PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > No, sunwjit and javacomp are two different products. sunwjit is what > > we get from Sun (actually they bought this JIT from another company) > > as a binary. ja

Re: Font quality question

1999-12-08 Thread jim
Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > > Peter Schuller writes: > > >> Since I cannot currently use the Blackdown 1.2.2 RC3 release as > >> it requires glibc 2.1.2 and I am currently stuck at 2.1.1, I > >> decided to try the Imprise 1.2.2 RC1 JDK. The first thing I > >> have noticed i

Some benchmark results.

1999-12-08 Thread Patrick LAM
I ran a few benchmarks to compare the different JVM's out there, on the SPEC benchmarks plus two of our internal benchmarks, sablecc (a parser generator), and soot, a frozen version of our analysis framework. Here are the results. These results are not scientific; in particular, I only ran each

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 06:54:44PM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Paolo Ciccone wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > > > > > What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or support (testing >and bugfixin

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > Jan Buchmann writes: > > Jan> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Paolo Ciccone wrote: > >> It's called Borland JIT :). Seriously the latest JIT is > >> included in the Sun/Inprise JDK but you can use it with any > >> other JDK 1.2 if you wan

Re: JDK 1.2.2 RC3 and RC1 VolanoMark results

1999-12-08 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Is there any way I can get a hold of the benchmark software? I'd like to try the tya compiler with blackdown's jdk and see how it stacks up. John Neffenger wrote: > I updated the Volano Report to include Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 on Red > Hat 6.1 and Inprise JDK 1.2.2 RC1 on Red Hat 6.0: > > Th

Segmentation violation with 1020 timeout sockets

1999-12-08 Thread John Neffenger
I opened what I think is the last bug holding back the VolanoMark network scalability tests under Blackdown JDK 1.2.2: Bug Id 1604, "Segmentation violation with 1020 timeout sockets" http://www.blackdown.org/cgi-bin/jdk/incoming?id=1604 I guess we report these bugs to Sun and Inprise through

Re: Font quality question

1999-12-08 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Peter Schuller writes: >> Since I cannot currently use the Blackdown 1.2.2 RC3 release as >> it requires glibc 2.1.2 and I am currently stuck at 2.1.1, I >> decided to try the Imprise 1.2.2 RC1 JDK. The first thing I >> have noticed is that the font rendition is terrible co

Re: Font quality question

1999-12-08 Thread Peter Schuller
> Since I cannot currently use the Blackdown 1.2.2 RC3 release as it > requires glibc 2.1.2 and I am currently stuck at 2.1.1, I decided to try > the Imprise 1.2.2 RC1 JDK. The first thing I have noticed is that the > font rendition is terrible compared to 1.1.8. The font is huge and > ugly, no

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Jan Buchmann writes: Jan> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Paolo Ciccone wrote: >> It's called Borland JIT :). Seriously the latest JIT is >> included in the Sun/Inprise JDK but you can use it with any >> other JDK 1.2 if you want. At present time there are no plan

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Paolo Ciccone writes: Paolo> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: >> What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or >> support (testing and bugfixing) the Blackdown team in their >> porting effort, if they just wanted to have (and thi

Re: Open up the JDK porting effort already!

1999-12-08 Thread Brian Pomerantz
You could do almost the same thing nd possibly appease Sun at the same time by setting up a system similar to how XFree86 is set up. Create the "Blackdown Organization" who is able to sign NDAs and whatever other legal crap that Sun requires. For those that want to help on the port, they join th

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Jan Buchmann
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:29:04AM -0800, Paolo Ciccone wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > > > What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or support (testing >and bugfixing) the > > Blackdown team in their porting effort, if they just wanted

Re: Sun/Inprise/GPL Linux JDK

1999-12-08 Thread Nelson Minar
"a b" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I wonder what would happen if any of the Blackdown developers had put a GPL >license in any part of their code fixes? If Blackdown had GPLed their patches, then any code that incorporated them would be GPL as well. I believe that Blackdown did not have the optio

Re: Sun and Inprise Java 2 announcement

1999-12-08 Thread Jacob Nikom
I still cannot completely agree with Brian - credit not "should be given", but must be given. If you work for the company and you patented something, the company owns the patent, but you still own your name on the patent. Company cannot change it, otherwise the patent will be invalidated. Sun

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:55:25AM +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote: > What I don't understand is: Why didn't Inprise ever contact or support (testing and >bugfixing) the > Blackdown team in their porting effort, if they just wanted to have (and this seems >to be the case) > a production quality JDK1.

Re: Sun/Inprise/GPL Linux JDK

1999-12-08 Thread Justin Lee
a b wrote: > Hi > > I wonder what would happen if any of the Blackdown developers had put a GPL > license in any part of their code fixes? > > How would that affect Sun's Community Source license? Aparat from the fact that such an act is illegal according to the non-commercial license agreement,

jre 1.2: "d" instead of "ä"

1999-12-08 Thread Martin Schröder
Hi, while running the jre1.2 with metal l&f I get "d"s instead of "ä"s in dialog titles -- but no warnings or errors from the jvm. Anybody got an idea how to fix this? Seems X somehow get's the wrong font (which?). Thanks in advance Martin -- Martin Schröder, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun JDK

1999-12-08 Thread Gunnar Stahl
I personally must say that I am the most happy person since blackdowns RC2 came out recently. It works absolutely stable, without problems (yes, I've solved the Zapd-Dingbats-hit-me-dead-problem). Very good work, very stable. Today Sun anounced with Inprise the release of Java2 RC1 for linux. Not

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun JDK

1999-12-08 Thread Nathan Meyers
Jacob Nikom wrote: > > I am eager to buy it. Could you tell us when it will be available? > > Jacob Nikom The publisher is advertising a 12/21/1999 publication date; there should be general shelf availability in January. I'll send a note to the list when it's available. Nathan > > Nathan Mey

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun JDK

1999-12-08 Thread Jacob Nikom
I am eager to buy it. Could you tell us when it will be available? Jacob Nikom Nathan Meyers wrote: > > Man, it's hard to keep up with this business! > > When the industry's first book about Java/Linux hits the streets in a > few weeks, it'll have several chapters about Blackdown and the Black

Sun/Inprise/GPL Linux JDK

1999-12-08 Thread a b
Hi I wonder what would happen if any of the Blackdown developers had put a GPL license in any part of their code fixes? How would that affect Sun's Community Source license? Maybe GPL was a good idea after all? Now we see what they mean by protecting your rights to give away your sof

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1999-12-08 Thread Houman Nazarnia
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Problems with the native threads on Linux

1999-12-08 Thread Pramila
Hi !       I am using  jdk117_v3  on RH6.1 and RH6.0 .       Here jdb hangs if I set the THREADS_FLAG to native , but it works properly if it equals to green.       Any info on  this? Please let me know  whether java native threads works properly on RH6.1 and RH6.0.       Thanks in advanc

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun JDK

1999-12-08 Thread Mark O'Donohue
> Another big Ditto from me. > > James Seigel wrote: > > > I think this group knows who to credit for the work in the trenches when no one > > else was supporting us developers on the Linux platform. As always I give thanks > > to blackdown for their supreme efforts to make this real! > > I al

JDK 1.2.2 RC3 with some JITs

1999-12-08 Thread SHUDO Kazuyuki
Hi Blackdown guys, I was noticed the problem which JDK 1.2.2 RC2 had (0x8000 / -1). But still a problem is preventing the RC3 from working with some JITs. For instance, with Inprise JIT (libjavacomp.so) for JDK 1.2pre2 which is released in Oct, it contained in Inprese/Sun 1.2.2 RC1 and shuJI

praise and respect for blackdown - but never for sun

1999-12-08 Thread Dimitrios Vyzovitis
To the blackdown team: Praise, Respect and Many Thanks for the great work guys. Don't give up the fight. To inprise: As derek says, "watch your back" To sun: Don't ever expect to get respect in the community with moves like this one - and I don't mean the "community" that the pathetic community

Java 2 for 2.0.x kernel?

1999-12-08 Thread Martin Schröder
Hi, are there any plans from blackdown or Sun/Inprise to support Java 2 on 2.0.x kernels (or libc5 systems)? Not everybody wants to update his system... Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ArtCom GmbH, Grazer Straße 8, D-28359 Bremen

Re: Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Christopher Harvey
Oh guys ! Wake up ! Hands up all those who believe that David and Goliath have the same goals and ethics. As my old Grandma used to say: He who expects to be treated by the same rules in life that he himself follows, is a damn fool. Many are directly comparing the guys at Blackdown with the _co

JIT/Hotspot/Interpretor Information

1999-12-08 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
With all the recent news regarding Java/Linux (and being hit by the idea that there really isn't any useable open source Java engine), I became interested in the general topic of JITs, Hotspot-type engines (what's it called .. dynamic compilation?) and bytecode interpretors. Can anyone recommend

JDK 1.2.2 RC3 and RC1 VolanoMark results

1999-12-08 Thread John Neffenger
I updated the Volano Report to include Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 on Red Hat 6.1 and Inprise JDK 1.2.2 RC1 on Red Hat 6.0: The Volano Report http://www.volano.com/report.html Kevin Hendricks told me he already knows the fix for the SIGSEGV problem at just over 1000 connections (see Table 2). W

Thanks for the effort

1999-12-08 Thread Jo Uthus
Since we all (to some extent) agree that we have to have a JDK/JRE 1.2(.2 or whatever) running on Linux, I must say to Juergen first that you (since you're the most profiled member of the Blackdown team at the time being) have done a great job ! To Juergen (and the rest of the Blackdown-team):

Re: Native vs. green threads

1999-12-08 Thread John Neffenger
We don't have to argue about native vs. green threads since the Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 release does both. I understand why people need native threads, but I need green threads on Linux for handling a large number of dedicated connections to a pure Java server (see http://developer.java.sun.com/dev

Questions to SUN, blackdown, inprise

1999-12-08 Thread Jan Buchmann
Hello to all of you, I've read the most of the discussion about the blackdown-inprise issue and I'm really annoyed (even more i'm pissed off) about the way SUN treated the blackdown-team. Now I have some questions and most of them are to SUN-representatives on this list: What I don't understan

Re: Sun and Inprise Java 2 announcement

1999-12-08 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> Paolo Ciccone writes: Paolo> example. JBuilder has Emacs emulation, with the standard Paolo> Swing of 1.2.2 if you press Alt-d or Ctrl-space Swing will Paolo> pass also the "d" or the blank in the editor. While the Paolo> event is processed correctly the extra character is