From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 26 07:44:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E404316A41F for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:44:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from fly.ebs.gr (fly.ebs.gr [62.103.84.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33F243D48 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:44:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from ebs.gr (root@hal.ebs.gr [10.1.1.2]) by fly.ebs.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j8Q7hp9V052810; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:43:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from [10.1.1.158] (pc158.ebs.gr [10.1.1.158]) by ebs.gr (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8Q7hxFk056789; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:44:00 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Message-ID: <4337A6AF.5000602@ebs.gr> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:43:43 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas Organization: EBS Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050830) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lewis References: <1127504815.1265.28.camel@localhost.eu.mscsoftware.com> <20050923213831.GA14819@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <20050923213831.GA14819@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org, "Georg-W. Koltermann" Subject: Re: cant get javaws to start up with jdk1.5p2, also plugin problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:44:15 -0000 Greg Lewis wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:46:55PM +0200, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: > >>from a freshly installed jdk1.5p2 as of today on FreeBSD 5.4 I get: >> >> hunter[12]$ echo $JAVA_HOME >> /usr/local/jdk1.5.0 >> hunter[13]$ $JAVA_HOME/jre/bin/javaws >> Java Web Start splash screen process exiting ... >> Bad installation. No JRE found in configuration file: Illegal byte sequence >> hunter[14]$ >> >>Any idea on how to proceed? > > > So here is the problem with Java Web Start. Basically I don't know how > to use it, so it gets next to no testing unless someone else tests it. > I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could point me at some documentation > or, even better, give me some examples I could test it with. All I did > for it was forward port the patches from 1.4.2 and made it compile. I > assumed that made it work since as I mentioned above I don't know how to > test it. You could check out the following links: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/javaws/index.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/javaws/developersguide/javaws.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/javaws/developersguide/contents.html There are some demos here: http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/demos.html I've been meaning to look into this, but haven't found the time yet... Regards, Panagiotis