From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 15 13:55:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A980137BFF4 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:54:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-147.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.147] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA15582; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:54:52 +1100 From: Danny To: , FreeBSD ISP List Subject: Re: Java and FreeBSD Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:55:03 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031708573602.00326@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Why would you need to install JDK on your machine? All he needs is to copy his chat.class into the new server then the class will work on the clients side. It has nothing to do with the server. There is no problem with that. Java is cross platform On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, up@3.am wrote: > I have a fairly large customer who's building a few sites using a custom > designed Java-based web-chat interface. The server that those sites are > currently on is a Sparc running Solaris for the time being. I told him of > my intent to replace that server with a FreeBSD box and his developer is > balking at the idea, to the point where I might lose the customer. > > I don't know from Java, but this person seems to think that FBSD is far > behind Linux and the commercial OS's in this regard. I installed JDK > 1.1.8 on my current FBSD 3.2-RELEASE box, and this new server's going to > be running 4.0R when it ships. > > Any and all feedback or URLs of FreeBSD sites running Java server apps > appreciated. > > TIA, > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor > up@3.am http://3.am > ========================================================================= > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message