From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 5 20:16:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA24462 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:16:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hammurabi.nh.ultra.net (hammurabi.nh.ultra.net [205.162.79.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA23809 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gfraize@nh.ultranet.com) Received: from nh.ultranet.com (d11.dial-7.exr.nh.ultra.net [207.41.148.203]) by hammurabi.nh.ultra.net (8.8.5/ult.n14767) with ESMTP id XAA30657; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:10:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34B1AD63.B00DFABC@nh.ultranet.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 23:04:51 -0500 From: Greg Fraize Organization: Just me! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Java Apps? References: <199801041023.CAA11922@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------5497C5A5873DBB07A2CA964C" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------5497C5A5873DBB07A2CA964C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MY my old college they just switch what lang. student learn in programming one. two years ago they change it to C++, now this spring it is going to be java..... Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Curious, are people using FreeBSD to develop Java apps ? > > >From my brief exposure to jdk1.1.5 , Swing, Beans, etc.., it seems > that there is enough critical infra-structure to create useful apps > also there are plenty of lessons there in OO methodology -- > actually Java looks more like a cross-road of OO techniques. > > This is the have been trying to solve for FreeBSD : > Provide or highlight a technology which people can actually use > to develop applications. > > My first venture was to port X to 386bsd 0.0 , then > porting of Inteviews, and later on tcl . Must say that neither of > those technologies have been sufficient or catalysts for > developing applications. > > So is Java the technology which will launch application development > in FreeBSD?? > > When I am more up to speed on Java , my test target application will be > a graphical front-end for my Pilot 8) > > Cheers, > Amancio --------------5497C5A5873DBB07A2CA964C Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Gregory Fraize Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Gregory Fraize n: Fraize;Gregory email;internet: gfraize@nh.ultranet.com x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------5497C5A5873DBB07A2CA964C--