From owner-freebsd-java Tue Sep 14 7:52:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from keywest.seanreilly.com (reillys.erols.com [207.96.124.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FA615297 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 07:52:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sreilly@seanreilly.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.seanreilly.com [127.0.0.1]) by keywest.seanreilly.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA11203; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:52:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sreilly@seanreilly.com) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:52:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Reilly To: Jeff Dalton Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need Swing with Java and Netscape In-Reply-To: <199909141449.PAA04443@todday.aiai.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Jeff Dalton wrote: > I'm sorry for being so ignorant, but where do I get a working > JDK 1.1.8 for FreeBSD? You can get it at http://freebsd.org/java/ > And can I then just get Swing from Sun > and use that? Yes, since swing has no native code. > Also, I don't know what (if anything) I'll have to do to get > Netscape 4.6 to handle swing. Shouldn't have to do anything, although having the swingall.jar file in your classpath will probably really speed up download times for applets that use swing. Running swing applets isn't very efficient at this point since none of the browsers that I know of support java 1.2 yet. Thanks, Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message