From owner-freebsd-java Wed Sep 22 23:17:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6099A154A8 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:17:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA02218; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:17:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id AAA18872; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:17:41 -0600 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:17:41 -0600 Message-Id: <199909230617.AAA18872@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Wes Peters Cc: Nate Williams , java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announce: New release of JDK1.1.8 for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <37E9C548.AF193572@softweyr.com> References: <199909230514.XAA18035@mt.sri.com> <37E9C548.AF193572@softweyr.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > - The ELF version should work better with AWT/Swing applications. The > > FreeBSD project donated a more modern copy of Motif that should avoid > > some weird X errors that occurred previously. > > Cool. Do you have an explicity references for obtaining and installing > Swing components to work with this release of JDK 1.1.8? Sun releases a version on their WWW site explicitly for JDK1.1. That version works better (faster, less bugs) than the version in JDK1.2 for numerous reasons outlined by the Swing folks at Sun, mostly related to the fact that it's easier to update stuff that's third party (Swing is integrated in JDK1.2) and JDK1.1 doesn't do Java2D, which causes a *huge* performance hit (2-5X for *anything/everything*). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message