Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:01:55 +0900 From: Michael Westbay <westbay@seaple.icc.ne.jp> To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200202121201.VAA09087@orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20020212181123.A63446@gurney.lake> References: <20020211142834.A81586@sr.se> <200202120547.OAA22602@orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp> <20020212181123.A63446@gurney.lake>
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Reilly-san wrote:
>> [much about Web Start snipped]
>
> [...] The trouble is that the first thing that it
> seems to do in all cases (on the demo app page) is go looking on
> sun's web site for the JRE, having decided that I don't have an
> appropriate one running. This, despite the fact that it seems to
> be running under said jre.
Take a look at ~/javaws/javaws.cfg. Mine looks like this:
#
#Wed Oct 17 15:37:38 JST 2001
javaws.cfg.jre.0.platform=3D1.3
javaws.cfg.jre.0.location=3Dhttp\://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se
javaws.cfg.jre.0.product=3D1.3.1
javaws.cfg.jre.0.path=3D/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/bin/java
I've run quite a few samples with this setup without being prompted for a=
=20
different JRE. I'm pretty sure that this was the only file I needed to=20
tweak. And I don't even have the Linux JDK on my machine any more.
> For a nominally system-independant software platform, Sun
> seems to be going out of their way to tie Java to their preferred
> platforms (four of them: windows, solaris-sparc, solaris-i386,
> linux-i386). Pretty poor, I think.
You have a point. That's where Lewis-san, Koster-san, Maruyama-san, and=20
countless others have picked up the ball to keep Sun's promise alive.
--=20
Michael Westbay
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