j2se1.4 for sparc

[Andy Tolonen]

Hi,

I am hoping someone can help me with a java newbie question.  I need to
run an application that requires a JVM that supports J2SE1.4 or later.  My
machine is a Sun Ultra 10 (ultrasparc processor) running Sarge.  It
appears from blackdown.org that J2SE1.4 is not available for sparc.  Is
there anyway to run an application requiring J2SE1.4 on a sparc machine
running debian?  If not, how long might it be until this is possible?

thanks,
andy

j2se-packages & java-package; java2-common

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]

Hi Juergen, Matthias and Joris,

You maintain on alioth under the pkg-j2se project packages for
blackdown. By doing it, you've done a lot of work w.r.t. integration
into Debian.

It would be nice if that effort would be combined with java-package,
which has a goal to provide scripts so that users can make .deb packages
from the upstream blackdown tarballs themselves. Ideally, I guess, those
.deb's would be the same, just as the code to generate them.

Do you have any idea's and/or suggestions how to best achieve this? The
approach used by java-package and by the pkg-j2se project is a bit
different, they even provide packages with a completely different naming
scheme.

I'm open to any suggestion and idea from you, as you are obviously much
longer involved in these java packages than I am.

One more thing, what about the java2-common package[1]? I see you do not
depend on it. Can it maybe better be removed from the archive? Within
the archive, not a single package references java2-common.

--Jeroen

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/java2-common.html

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