Pascal Chenevas-Paule ha scritto: > Hi all, > > I'm newbie in debian-ppc (I bought my first mac : an IbookG4 09 Sept) and > programming. Whitch I have need to programming in java on debian ?
Here is your checklist: 1 - a text editor 2 - a Java Compiler 3 - a Java Debugger 4 - a Java Virtual Machine As an alternative to the points 1,2 and 3, you could use an IDE, that is a 3 in 1, you have all 3 pieces with a single product. Your main problem is the VM: Java + linux (be it debian or others) + ppc is an unfortunate combination, because there isn't a complete java 2 VM that officially supports this kind of platform. You can try with gcj or kaffe or other OSS efforts, but, AFAIK, none of these currently implements full java 2 compliance. However if you need only java 1.1, gcj and kaffe are two good starting points (mutually exclusive, gcj compiles for your platform while kaffe offers a VM). If you need java 2 then IBM offers several java 2 VMs running on Linux for iSeries and pSeries, which I seem to recall are similar to PPCs and may work on your system too (do not bet on this however): https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/lxdk/lxdk-p If you go for the IDE, that would simplify you the work. jEdit (http://www.sf.net/projects/jedit) is one of the possible choices. I suppose that JBuilder Foundation for Linux-i386 or MacOSX may work too (http://www.borland.com), because it's written in java, so, as far as you have a java 2 vm, it should start without noticing the difference (however you'll have to tweak with the startup scripts to make them use your VM). You can also try with NetBeans from Sun (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download-netbeans.html), but, again, you'll need to trick the Linux-i386 version. Good luck! Lucio.
