From owner-freebsd-java Tue Feb 12 4: 5:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp (orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp [210.170.8.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204D137B402 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 04:05:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (cr1-199-037.seaple.icc.ne.jp [202.215.199.37]) by orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp (8.9.3/3.7W-000828) id VAA09087 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:01:01 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200202121201.VAA09087@orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" From: Michael Westbay To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java for FreeBSD Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:01:55 +0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020211142834.A81586@sr.se> <200202120547.OAA22602@orca.seaple.icc.ne.jp> <20020212181123.A63446@gurney.lake> In-Reply-To: <20020212181123.A63446@gurney.lake> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 Work: Beacon-IT http://www.beacon-it.co.jp/ Home: http://www.seaple.icc.ne.jp/~westbay Commentary: http://www.japanesebaseball.com/forum/ Due to severe bugs in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook users may no be able to read beyond this point... begin =20 Your mail client is begin-bug free. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message