From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 05:35:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA26265 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 05:35:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA26260; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 05:35:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from obiwan.aceonline.com.au (obiwan.aceonline.com.au [203.103.90.67]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id FAA17010 ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 05:35:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.aceonline.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA07708; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:04:58 +0800 (WST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:04:55 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: Mark Mayo cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ... 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 > Why bother??? It's not so hard to type 'java Class'...... > I like my users to be aware that they are running through an interpreter, > and that there are command line options to the interpreter. > Well some of my users like being able to run java "binaries" without invoking the interpreter on the command line, later on if (when?) say DOS and Win16/32 binaries are supported, I think it would look better if you could just type "progname" and it ran it. > BTW, there's no such thing as a 'java binary'. It's just a bytecode class > file that has to be interpreted. > Aside from the fact that I remember a java-processor out there that runs native java bytecode, you're right. Remember - users don't want to know half the time how things work. They just want it to. :) If a user sees in a blurb that FreeBSD supports executing java "binaries" when you add the jdk package/port, they'll say "wow!". Just another crazy idea. Adrian.