From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 14:59:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA02068 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 14:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02057 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 14:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0uMLwX-0004JxC; Wed, 22 May 96 14:59 PDT Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:59:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Java Workshop runs on FreeBSD! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Last night I made a quick attempt to run SunSoft's Java Workshop under the Linux JDK under FreeBSD-current. To my surprise, after hacking up the shell scripts a little (e.g. BSD uses "uname -m" instead of "uname -p") I was able to successful start JWS, compile a simple program, and execute it in the included Java Web browser. Unfortunately, any socket activity raised an exception, so neither HTTP nor the debugger (which spawns a separate copy of JWS) worked. Otherwise I would have published a checklist of what I did, and where to get all these programs, but I want to test things a little further. In the meantime, enterprising hackers may want to check out http://www.sun.com for JWS Dev 4 Beta, and http://www.blackdown.org/ for the Linux JDK. I'm also waiting for the Dev 5 release of Java Workshop, since the Dev 4 beta expires on June 1. If I can get everything working, I will post an official announcement. I wish I could make this a port, but because of the licensing status of all programs involved, this is obviously not possible. In the meantime, interested parties can contact me if you want to help test JWS under FreeBSD or Linux, help solve the remaining Socket problem, and/or try to get a native FreeBSD port of the JDK capable of running JWS. ---Jake