Brad -- VAJ is pretty much a dead dog. I suggest that you upgrade to Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) which is the follow-on product to VAJ. It is free. As a VAJ user, I think that you'll find a very fast learning curve. It is written almost entirely in Java and it is open source. There is a RedHat Linux version on the download page.
Eclipse itself doesn't include some of the enterprise features of VAJ. For that, you'll need WSAD, a set of plugins to Eclipse, which is pricey. For straight java development, you don't need WSAD but it has handy features for designing html/jsp pages, .war files, .ear files, etc. A free sixty day trial version is available at http://www-3.ibm.com/software/webservers/studio/preregister.html#wsadlp. Eclipse can use any standard JDK and does not use a proprietary JDK like VAJ depended on. This was a major limitation of VAJ and I'm glad that it's been done away with in Eclipse. So (he says, working his way back to a Xalan-related topic), I don't really see the limitations of VAJ weighing in heavily in this discussion, IMHO. HTH, Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 6:57 PM > To: Gary L Peskin; [email protected]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Second call: Does anyone still really require > Java 1.1 support? > > > At 6:40 PM -0800 2/6/02, Gary L Peskin wrote: > >So, for those of you who are limited to JDK 1.1.8, please > speak out now > >so that you can be counted. I've already counted Elliotte Rusty > >Harold. > > Linux users of Visual Age for Java are stuck at 1.1.8 indefinitely. I > rarely use it anymore because of this, but just happened to be using > it at the moment to debug a particularly knotty piece of code. > > IBM reneged on their promise to upgrade the linux edition last Jan > EVEN FOR THEIR PAYING CUSTOMERS. So much for IBM's linux "support". > -- >
