Re: [Java] kaffe or Blackdown's JDK

[Robert Canary <rwcanary ohiocounty net>]

HI,

I downloaded the alphaworks-jre.    Apparently it is cut for a Redhat 6.0.
It say it must have a 2.2.x kernel and it has to have glibc-2.1.   Will this
thing run on a redhat 5.2 machine.   I really donot want the hassle of
upgrade to the 2.2.x kernel and then trying to upgrade the glibc-2.1.  which
is virtually impossible without a complete install.

thanks in advance :-)

Thomas Oesterlie wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > I have an application here that is written in Java.  It reqires the JDK
> > be installed, however, I was wonder which Java intrpreter ti use.
>
> First of all I'd check if your Java application requires Java2. If it
> does, you have to download the Blackdown port of Sun's JDK1.2 for Linux
> (incidentally JDK 1.2 is the Java2 development kit).
>
> Kaffe, on the other hand, only supports Java up to version 1.1.7. Besides,
> I'm having a goddamnawful time trying to run any Java application with
> Swing GUI elements in Kaffe 1.0b4 (which I believe is the most recent
> version).
>
> I'm personally unhappy with Blackdown's port of Sun's JDK1.2 due to
> performance problems. On the other hand, IBM's Alphaworks JDK1.1.8 runs
> very well on my Linux system. If you don't mind downloading a mouthful (I
> think the IBM JDK is around 5 MBs), that is my recommandation. To avoid
> problems, make sure you've uninstalled Kaffe before trying to run a Java
> application with another Java Virtual Machine.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Thomas Oesterlie
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