From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 28 23:18:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.de (mailout00.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C3037B407 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from usselmann.m@icg-online.de) Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout00.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 15bygU-0007yx-02; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:18:42 +0200 Received: from icg-pc202.icg-online.de (06192901197-0001@[217.88.168.58]) by fmrl05.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 15bygS-1o8vceC; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:18:40 +0200 Received: from icg-pc206.hofheim.icg-online.de (IDENT:manfred@icg-pc206.hofheim.icg-online.de [10.1.2.206]) by icg-pc202.icg-online.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA88277 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:35:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from usselmann.m@icg-online.de) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:24:32 +0200 From: Manfred Usselmann To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Distribution Question (Was: Would like comments...) Message-Id: <20010829082432.52f0b72d.usselmann.m@icg-online.de> In-Reply-To: References: <3B8BC18F.44BFFB97@ticktockman.com> Organization: ICG IT Consulting GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.17-14smp (RH 7.0) User-Agent: Sylpheed (http://sylpheed.good-day.net/) X-Internet-Site: http://www.icg-online.de/iwg/?bereich=icg X-Address: Bahnstrasse 7, 65835 Liederbach, Germany X-message-flag: Hi! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 06192901197-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:19:11 -0700 (PDT) "Rick Hamell" wrote: > > > Why is Java support on the BSDs so behind. I'm just curious as to why I > > have to load up a Linux package to use some of the newer features within > > the language. If this were more up to date, I would not have to dual > > boot my machine! > > Because nobody has determined it to be important enough to make it > native. You can use all the Linux programs you need under > "emulation," BTW... so why fix something that isn't directly related to > FreeBSD being a SERVER OS? > I am not sure if FreeBSD should really be regarded as a pure server os. I don't think so. But anyway, Java is even more important on the server side than on a workstation. The industrie standard for application server is J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). Just to name a few: Bea WebLogic, IBM Websphere, Borland AppServer, ATG Dynamo, Sun/Netscape IPlanet, JBoss, Orion, Allaire JRun etc. If you don't want to use Microsofts ASP / .NET solutions you need Java on the server for the competing technologies around Servlets, JSP's and EJB's... Manfred -- ________________________________________________________________________ Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message