From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 1 05:08:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA00215 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 05:08:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA00210 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 05:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA28911; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 08:08:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 08:08:41 -0500 (EST) From: Cliff Addy To: Dan Busarow cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Dan Busarow wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Cliff Addy wrote: > > I have several questions related to installing/using java support on > > FreeBSD. Keep in mind that I do not program Java, I just want to support > > my users on the system who want to use java on our web server. We're > > running 2.2-release. > > If that's all you want to do then you do not need to install kaffe > or the jdk. Your users just need to copy their class files into > their web directories. > > kaffe is a virtual machine for running java applications, the jdk > is obviously a development kit for producing those (and applets) > but your users are more likely to be using another platform for this. Right. I understand that java applets for the browsers are served like any other file. I mean clients who want to *run* java programs *on* the server. For example, a cgi script written in java. You need a java compiler on the server for that, right?