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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!global-one.pt!news.rccn.net!morgana.mat.uc.pt!usenet From: "Pedro Miguel N.V. Rocha" <pmrocha@isr.uc.pt> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: Java development and FreeBSD Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 23:49:45 +0100 Organization: FCTUC Lines: 52 Message-ID: <33667B09.4559@isr.uc.pt> References: <33645F68.98@siemens.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: pegasus.isr.uc.pt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) To: Peter.Schurek@siemens.at Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39959 Peter.Schurek@siemens.at wrote: > > Hi ! > > I am currently evaluating Java as means for writing portable GUI > applications. The fact that the platforms with which I'm professionally > confronted (OS/2, Windows, Windows NT) all feature Java support seem to > justify digging deeper. > > At home I am running FreeBSD (2.1R). So before sifting through tons of > manuals and documentation I need a few questions answered to get > started: > > 1) The java interpreter is platform dependent. What besides > the JDK from Sun do I need to set up a basic Java development platform, > especially one supporting the awt classes ? > > 2) The Netscape browswer supports Java, but security considerations deny > the applets many features which the applet viewer allows. Should I even > bother obtaining Netscape as applet viewer ? Besides, what is the > standard HTML browser for FreeBSD ? I'm happy with lynx and an old > version of Mosaic, none of them has Java support. > > 3) If Netscape is ok, are there any ports specifically for FreeBSD or > must I use the Linux port ? > > TIA, Peter Hi, You will need kaffe because Sun's JDK won't work on FreeBSD. You will need, nevertheless, the file classes.zip from it and a package called kaffe (www.kaffe.org) - thing is, there is only support for jdk 1.0.2 . There are also in the ports collection all that is necessary to use awt (I believe it's something like biss.zip, I don't quite remember :( ). Using netscape as an appletviewer is a real pain - you have to restart it every time you recompile an applet... but there is a port of netscape to FreeBSD. One word of caution however, there are reports of awt not being that multiplatform... check out comp.java.lang.programmer Best of luck -- Pedro Miguel das Neves Valença Rocha pmrocha@isr.uc.pt Coimbra, Portugal