From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 15:02:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC1A16A41F for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:02:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87CCD43D46 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:02:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 13614 invoked by uid 502); 20 Sep 2005 15:02:56 -0000 Received: from dsl13079.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@66.243.212.79) by 0 with SMTP; 20 Sep 2005 15:02:56 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 66.243.212.79 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl13079.ywave.com Message-ID: <4330249F.4030908@ywave.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:02:55 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050908) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: guru@Sisis.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050920105114.GA4921@revolucion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20050920105114.GA4921@revolucion.Sisis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: 5.4-RELEASE && Java jre1.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:02:58 -0000 Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hello, > > I've the official dictionary of the Academy RAE of Spain. It > works very nice on Linux with an jre 1.1.8 shipped with the > dictionary on CD; because I want to switch over to FreeBSD > I've ported jdk15 form /usr/ports/java/jdk15 which took > one night buy installed without any problem. But apparently > the application gives nullpointer exceptions with the java 1.5 > and the folks of the Academy RAE are claiming that it has > to be 1.3 and not 1.5. > > Apparently there is no jre1.3 in the ports collection and > the diablo-jre13 does not compile: > > # make > ===> diablo-jre-1.3.1.0_1 does not run on FreeBSD >= 5.x. > # > > Is there any help? > > Thx > > matthias You could always install the 1.3 version of the jdk in addition to the 1.5 jdk. They install to different locations so they can co-exist. Installing the javavmwrapper will help with managing multiple jdks. Kind of overkill just to get a 1.3 JRE but... HTH, Micah