From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 10:35:55 2005 Return-Path: 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 3A4D616A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:35:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8666043D49 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:35:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CBA439D; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34204-01; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA2B4218; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:27 +0100 (CET) From: "Jorn Argelo" To: "Loren M. Lang" , Weehamama@aol.com Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:27 +0100 Message-Id: <20050102103335.M37543@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050102102538.GE14949@alzatex.com> References: <199.3548f13a.2f00bff7@aol.com> <20050102102538.GE14949@alzatex.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.41 20040926 X-OriginatingIP: 82.161.134.53 (jorn) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.wcborstel.nl cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does freeBSD have CORBA specs and does it have J2sdk1.4.2 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 10:35:55 -0000 On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:25:38 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:31:35PM -0500, Weehamama@aol.com wrote: > > I have been told it does have both already, but I can't find it in any of > > documentations. I'm specifically talking about freebsd on emulab.net. > > Yes, freebsd has had both corba and sun java for a long time. corba > is needed by the gnome desktop which is very well supported on > freebsd plus many gnome app even if you don't use the gnome desktop. > Your pretty much guaranteed that freebsd will have corba already > installed and running because of this. It uses ORBit, the same > implementation used on linux and so all the same docs apply to > freebsd, just check out orbits website. > > For java, freebsd can use ibm or sun's java implementation. ibm runs > under linux emulation and sun can run under linux emulation or natively. > There are also a few open source jvm's like kaffe available. Also, you have the blackdown-java project. AFAIK it's open source as well, and it uses the Linux compatibility. Last time I compiled Java you required a working Java enviroment before you were able to compile Sun's Java implementation. Might be handy to keep that in mind. Cheers, Jorn