Re: New version of the Debian-java FAQ
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 18:40, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
> Feel free to send me any comments/suggestion ... *however* I hope
> that when a final 1.0 version of the FAQ is available somebody on the
> debian-java mailing lists adopts the FAQ since I will probably not be able
> to keep it up to date.
:%s/yikes/jikes/g
> 1.4.7. Appletviewer tool
> ------------------------
>
> Kaffee comes with one.
Blackdown, and ibm jdk do too. I don't know if the ibm appeltviewer
works.
> 1.4.10. EJB
> -----------
>
> There is activity in this area, the most noteworthy being the Open
> Source EJB implementation from Bull in France called Jonas. I have
> done some work with this system and it provides a good start towards a
> full EJB feature set. In particular, it provides a transaction monitor
> and a container based persistance implementation. I have used this
> system on Linux with free databases such as Postgresql. I have not
> been able to get the system fully operational on Kaffe. Additionally,
> the system depends on many Sun APIs which have not been cloned (JTA,
> JNDI, and EJB itself).
Enterprise Java Beans? URL for Jonas?
> 2.2. What free platforms are there and how can I contribute?
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Please help one of the Free Java implementations if you want to use
> Java in Debian. There are a lot of projects that you can choose from:
>
> * classpath: http://www.classpath.org. An alternative to jdk's 1.2
> core classes.
> * Classpath http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/. Most of the
> Standard classes for Java 1.2 (except Swing and RMI) are
> implemented by the ClassPath project
Pointers to the same project.
> 4.1. What jvms work in Debian?
> ------------------------------
>
> Currently only Sun's jdk. (But, for simple programs such as the ones
> used for teaching, the free kaffe VM may be enough. Another solution
> is to use gcj and to compile to native code, thus solving the VM
> problem.)
The ibm jdk is a complete working version.
> 5.1.2. Debian 2.2 'potato'
> --------------------------
>
> * `fastjar' a complete replacement for the jar utility written in C
> under the GPL http://www.engr.orst.edu/~burnsbr/fastjar/ (check
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-j
> ava-9908/msg00015.html
Potato includes a lot of libraries:
lib-dom-java
lib-fop-java
lib-gnu.getopt-java
lib-gnu.regexp-java
lib-openxml-java
lib-rxtx-java
lib-sax-java
lib-xp-java
lib-xslp-java
lib-xt-java
> * `ibm-jdk1.1'. Installer for IBM Developer Kit for Linux, Java(TM)
> Technology Edition This is an alpha version 1.1.6 of the IBM
> Developer Kit. The IBM Developer Kit is a development environment
> for writing applets and applications that conform to the Java 1.1
> Core API. Its compiler and other tools are run from a shell and
> have no GUI interface. . The IBM Developer Kit includes the IBM
> JIT (libjitc.so) which is used by all tools by default. Look for
> it in http://master.debian.org/~doko. Needs to be upgraded to
> 1.1.8. However it seems that providing an installer might break
> their license (see section 2.4, `IBM's jdk1.1')
The installer in potato installs the 1.1.8 version not 1.1.6. It
depends on glibc-2.1 and Linux-2.2 IIRC.
> * `jdk1.2-installer'. Look for it in
> http://www.pobox.com/~julio/debian/jdk1.2-installer/.
Blackdown pre-release installer. Needs a little work to install
release candidate version.
> 6.1. How can I make Java servlets work?
> ---------------------------------------
> You can use:
>
> * GNUJSP
>
> * Apache Jserv
Not yet packaged for debian (hopefully soon)
- tomcat from <http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/>
- jigsaw from <http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/>
HTH,
Remco
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