Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 9 November 2000, at 22 h 37, the keyboard of =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This proposed java-policy is broken... It doesn't allow for diferent > versions of the same classes. Proposals and patches are welcome (bugs against java-common, for inst

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > The truth is that there isn't a Java policy. > > True, but there is a proposed java policy, which seems like a good > starting point. AFAIK, most java packages for debian are conforming to > the java policy. > > apt-get install java-common > lynx /usr/doc/java-common/policy.html > This pr

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > The truth is that there isn't a Java policy. > > True, but there is a proposed java policy, which seems like a good > starting point. AFAIK, most java packages for debian are conforming to > the java policy. > > apt-get install java-common > lynx /usr/doc/java-common/policy.html > This p

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09-Nov-00 6:17:55 PM >>> >Though not yet in main, Stefan Gybas packaged >Tomcat 3.2b6 recently for Debian. I've given it some simple >tests, and it seems to work. He decided to make >/usr/share/java/webapps the place to dump war >files. The war files are

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:59:25AM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: > The point I was trying to make is that Debian may want to provide a > standard webapp directory or path (the place where WAR files are put > so that the servlet engine can find them). Though not yet in main, Stefan Gybas packaged Tomca

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09-Nov-00 6:17:55 PM >>> >Though not yet in main, Stefan Gybas packaged >Tomcat 3.2b6 recently for Debian. I've given it some simple >tests, and it seems to work. He decided to make >/usr/share/java/webapps the place to dump war >files. The war files are

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:59:25AM +, Nic Ferrier wrote: > The point I was trying to make is that Debian may want to provide a > standard webapp directory or path (the place where WAR files are put > so that the servlet engine can find them). Though not yet in main, Stefan Gybas packaged Tomc

Re: Is there a FM/HOWTO about setting up java 1.2 on Debian?

2000-11-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>"Juergen" == Juergen Kreileder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Our 1.3 and some additional packages are available as deb packages Juergen> from our mirrors: Juergen> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html Jue

Packages building without the proper options (Was: Getting ant and kaffe to play nice

2000-11-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 8 November 2000, at 15 h 29, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a number of features (including even X AWT GUI support) that are > silently disabled during the Kaffe build if you do not have the proper header > files installed. This is a ver

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 8 November 2000, at 12 h 3, the keyboard of Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Emenaker sent a nice idea to me which the list didn't get to > see. He suggested making a script which does autodetection of jar > files in your /usr/share/java and sets the classpath > appro

Java Web Start

2000-11-09 Thread Christopher Cobb
I don't suppose Debian would go as far as to implement a Java Web Start repository. http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/demos.html It has some similarities to the Debian packaging system. In many ways its more primitive, but it also does some clever things like piecemeal upgrading of a

Re: Is there a FM/HOWTO about setting up java 1.2 on Debian?

2000-11-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 8 November 2000, at 14 h 2, the keyboard of Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some advice on setting up a working java 1.2 > environment on Debian: is there such a beast? The FAQ gives some ideas: http://people.debian.org/~bortz/Java/debian-java-faq.html/c

Re: Is there a FM/HOWTO about setting up java 1.2 on Debian?

2000-11-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>"Juergen" == Juergen Kreileder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Our 1.3 and some additional packages are available as deb packages Juergen> from our mirrors: Juergen> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html Ju

Packages building without the proper options (Was: Getting ant and kaffe to play nice

2000-11-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 8 November 2000, at 15 h 29, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a number of features (including even X AWT GUI support) that are > silently disabled during the Kaffe build if you do not have the proper header > files installed. This is a ve

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 8 November 2000, at 12 h 3, the keyboard of Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Emenaker sent a nice idea to me which the list didn't get to > see. He suggested making a script which does autodetection of jar > files in your /usr/share/java and sets the classpath > appr

Java Web Start

2000-11-09 Thread Christopher Cobb
I don't suppose Debian would go as far as to implement a Java Web Start repository. http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/demos.html It has some similarities to the Debian packaging system. In many ways its more primitive, but it also does some clever things like piecemeal upgrading of

Re: Is there a FM/HOWTO about setting up java 1.2 on Debian?

2000-11-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 8 November 2000, at 14 h 2, the keyboard of Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some advice on setting up a working java 1.2 > environment on Debian: is there such a beast? The FAQ gives some ideas: http://people.debian.org/~bortz/Java/debian-java-faq.html/

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> "Joe Emenaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09-Nov-00 12:55:05 AM >>> >.war files aren't searched directly. I know a bit about this - I'm on the Sun Servlet standardizing committee. >They're just archives used for deploying a web application. >If I create a new directory for a new webapp and drop

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-09 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> "Joe Emenaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09-Nov-00 12:55:05 AM >>> >.war files aren't searched directly. I know a bit about this - I'm on the Sun Servlet standardizing committee. >They're just archives used for deploying a web application. >If I create a new directory for a new webapp and drop