From owner-freebsd-java Wed Feb 27 7:47:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from cerberus.perendengue.com (lnk-65-31-227-117.neb.rr.com [65.31.227.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B3837B400; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by cerberus.perendengue.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 814723C0D; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:47:07 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:47:07 -0600 From: Jesse McConnell To: portmgr@freebsd.org, java@FreeBSD.ORG, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG, kevlo@FreeBSD.ORG, sebster@sebster.org, ernsth@nl.euro.net Subject: Support bsd.java.mk Message-ID: <20020227094707.A91818@gallup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 Great idea! I think this will really help increase peoples awareness for java support on freebsd. I would love to get more people aware of how good java is on fbsd. I have run the linux JDK's a lot and they just seem prone to failures when you change kernel versions, or especially have any differences in the glibc stuff. Never really had a problem with java on fbsd. :) I wanted to comment on that bsd.java.mk file. I really like the idea of adding it as I am working jboss ports at the moment. I should make that a lot easier. One note that I think we might want to consider is where javadoc information could go. Perhaps if those are chosen to be installed then we could install them into ${PREFIX}share/doc/java . All javadoc apis could be installed into subdirs based on port name and then tweak a html file in that java directory adding the link to that subdir's api info. Then flash a message at the end of the port install mentioning that the docs are browsable via a local browser or by linking to that directory from perhaps /usr/local/www/data. That would all people to link in a page or directory which would provide access to all javadoc info. Another thing I have read talked about is where the jars could go on simple things like helper classes. I like the idea of helper classes getting installed in something like /usr/local/java/libs or jars. Then we could provide a script like the glib12-config and gtk12-config only for the classpath. It would be handy to be able to set your classpath with all those special helper classes just by typing: export CLASSPATH=`java-config` Chau! Jesse -- Jesse McConnell The Gallup Organization (402) 486-6987 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message