Re: About blackdown
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 17:21 -0400, Tong a écrit :
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:01:56 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
>
> > Obviously all this from standard debian packages if that is possible
>
> I've noticed that many of the answers for this thread suggest to avoid the
> blackdown. Any justification for that?
Had problems when trying to make Tomcat/Jboss stuff work. It suddenly
worked when I used sun sdk instead. Since I lost a lot of time because
of this I can only warn you. Otherwise, blackdown java worked quite well
for other purposes.
>
> The reason I'm asking is that I asked a similar question a while ago, and
> got a suggest to use blackdown. I was just about to give it a try.
>
> Here are the quotes from the original suggest:
>
> ,-----
> | I am using blackdown j2re1.4, it works.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | the blackdown j2re1.4 works perfectly fine, but it's not DFSG free software
> | due to licensing conditions imposed by Sun.
> |
> | There are other projects to create a real free software java platform, but
> | they are not finished yet.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | The sun system is a reasonable alternative, but if I understand correctly it's
> | essentially the same as the blackdown system anyway, blackdown port java to
> | linux for Sun (and us). And it's packaged for debian...
> `-----
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
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