From owner-freebsd-java Wed May 9 15: 2:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from fdy2.demon.co.uk (fdy2.demon.co.uk [194.222.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20EE37B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 15:02:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk) Received: (from rjs@localhost) by fdy2.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA37995; Wed, 9 May 2001 23:01:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rjs) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:01:59 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200105092201.XAA37995@fdy2.demon.co.uk> From: Robert Swindells To: robinson@netrinsics.com Cc: markd@lutris.com, java@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <20010509142155.A90117@elephant.netrinsics.com> (message from Michael Robinson on Wed, 9 May 2001 14:21:55 +0800) Subject: Re: No Java applets in FreeBSD? Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:21:43PM -0700, Mark Diekhans wrote: >> Michael Robinson writes: >> > My understanding is that there is no way under FreeBSD to view modern >> > java applets in a modern web browser. Is that more or less correct? >> >> Not correct at all; For one, Linux netscape runs with zero problems. >> (of course don't know exactly what modern means). >Linux Communicator 4.x (which, in my personal opinion, is not >particularly modern) supports JDK 1.1 (which is absolutely not >modern). Linux Netscape 6.01 is dynamically linked against Linux >shared objects (which means you would have to install an entire Linux >X/GTK environment just to run the browser, at which point, why not >just run Linux). The source to the Netscape plugin is provided in the JDK 1.3.1 source bundle. It isn't tied to a particular version of the JDK, so you could build it against the native 1.2.2 beta one. Robert Swindells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message