[lug] java2-compatible?

[Thurston, Jason]

I recently installed 1.4 and was happily surprised to see many new
packages (such as "regex") and new methods in the String class.

There is a little bug for Redhat 7.1, the System.exit() method will
always return 0.  To fix it you have to intall a compat library, you can
find details at the sun download page.  I haven't installed the fix yet,

b/c the code I'm writing isn't effected by that. 


I don't write much gui, other than jsp, nor do I run many java
applications 
other than tomcat and jta20(an amazing telnet/ssh application/applet).
Allows you to connect to you pc from any browser.  So I haven't
encountered

the issue you have. 

Jason Thurston 
Software Engineer 
Pinnacle 2000 
SCP 
McKesson 
(303)926-2203 

-----Original Message----- 
From: D. Stimits [ mailto:stimits at idcomm.com <mailto:stimits at idcomm.com>
] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:40 PM 
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us 
Subject: Re: [lug] java2-compatible? 

"D. Stimits" wrote: 
> 
> Ok, I'm told I need a java2 compatible java environment. My current
1.1 
> is not satisfactory, I'll either rip it out or install alongside it.
But 
> looking at Blackdown, which is supposed to have a java2 version, I see

> 1.x versions. Is jdk1.2 "java2 compatible"? I know somewhere in there
is 
> a transition that does some sort of play on numbering/versioning. If
not 
> 1.2, will it literally be named something like jdk2.0? 
> 
> The reason I'm looking at the blackdown version is because I've heard
a 
> number of nice things about some of the widgets and extra classes that

> come with blackdown, but if something else is better, I'll use that. 
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com 
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More information to add to my quest. I went to java.sun.com, and see 
their standard edition listed as java2 is 1.3. But there is also a 1.4 
beta. Java versions seem to be a thorn in the side, can anyone suggest 
whether 1.3 or 1.4 beta is preferred for the java2 edition, if using the

sun versions? 

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com 
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