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Subject: Re: Desperately needed JDK help
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> I have a critical need to have a working JDK.  I wouldn't bother this
> group with this problem otherwise.

The JDK that Jeffrey made works *very* well (as well as Sun's JDK
anyway), modulo bugs I've found in the Date.toString() routines.

> While I'm certain the problem is not with my code, as the code runs
> fine on Solaris.  I am not, however, certain of the JDK port on
> Freefall, or of my installation of it.  I'm running 3.0-971024-SNAP.
..
> I am able to use javac to compile the code, which leads me to believe
> that I have all my environment variables set correctly.
> 
> Has anyone successfully used sockets with the jdk102.11-26 package?

Yep, and Jeffrey stated he's run the Corel office-suite with the JDK, so
I'm sure sockets work.  I'm running/debuggin a pretty significant CORBA
application with it and it works fine (modulo my bugs).




Nate