"Arnaud" == Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arnaud> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:42:49 -0800, Shyamal Prasad Arnaud> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I do not do any Java development anymore, and I've only ever >> used Blackdown on Debian, so any input would help. Arnaud> Maybe I'm too curious, but if you don't do java dev any Arnaud> more, why do you ask?! :-D Hi Arnaud, Thanks for the help. When I do Java work I use emacs Java Development Environment (JDE). It is a package (jde) in Debian, and also bundled into xemacs21 (in xemacs21-basesupport). I just noticed that both JDE versions in Debian (jde and xemacs21-basesupport) are partially broken: if you don't set JAVA_HOME (which is not allowed by Debian policy) some of the most useful tools don't work. I want to fix this, because when I do need to do Java again I'm going to need it :-) >> If not, how can I find the base of the distribution in general? Arnaud> I don't understand. I guess I was asking if the other JDK/JRE packages follow the same packaging as blackdown, which (in 1.3 at least) put everything under /usr/lib/j2se/1.3? I installed kaffe, and I see /usr/lib/kaffe/{bin/lib/jre}. Is that a happy accident, or is that some kind of Debian (or Java community) policy? I don't want to install every JVM out there if I can avoid it. Arnaud> See kaffe and free-java-sdk and point JAVA_HOME to Arnaud> /usr/lib/kaffe or /usr/lib/fjsdk Will do. But I'm just trying to see how to get JDE to work when JAVA_HOME is not set ;-) Cheers! Shyamal