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 -- Bakunin IRT arrangements van Balen FBI cartel Kosovo VX serbian SIGINT UCK Lebed colonel Noriega benzene AKSO PLO Patijn smuggle
