Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:12:58 +0200 From: Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@syncrontech.com> To: Mike Murphree <w4lna@knology.net>, "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ugrade from linux-jdk to native Message-ID: <200203011412.g21ECwL13401@guinness.syncrontech.com> In-Reply-To: <20020301123815.5D73737B405@hub.freebsd.org> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA3CD@l04.research.kpn.com> <20020301123815.5D73737B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi, On Friday 01 March 2002 14:38, Mike Murphree wrote: > On Friday 01 March 2002 03:39 am, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > Dear Mike, > > > > > > > Good question. Is there any reason to use native jdk instead > > > > > of the new version of the linux jdk? > > > > > > > > For most things it isn't. You'll need native for doing JNI > > > > stuff. Everything else works fine in the Linux JDK's. > > > > > > Along these lines, I have a Java program that works on both Windows > > > and Linux which uses libraries to perform serial I/O and I would > > > like to get it operating under FreeBSD. Is this not possible under > > > the Linux emulation or do I need a native JDK to make it work? > > > > There is a JavaComm port or somesuch. Isn't that a library to conduct > > serial I/O from Java? It might have ports to all the platforms you need. > > It does not. Only Windows, Linux, and probably Solaris. > Yes it does. Sun supports only operating systems above, but there is freebsd-commapi port, which provides FreeBSD-support to it. The port is not yet committed to ports tree, but there has bee progress today. There are just a few port Makefile -specific problems to be solved which are there mostly because it was the first port Makefile written by me. Ari S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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