[Gllug] Java ...

[Harry Mantheakis]

Here's a link to a recent discussion about Tomcat on Linux, which might be
helpful...

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109879741300002&r=1&w=2

One of the posters mentions (quote) "Works well, but no .deb file to install
it so had to use the tar file."

HTH

Regards

Harry Mantheakis




> Hi Rich
> 
> I cannot help you with respect to kaffe, nor indeed with respect to getting
> Sun's JVM to work on Debian.
> 
> But I can tell you that I use Tomcat and have been subscribing to their user
> list for a good year now, and I do not recollect people having problems
> getting Sun's JVM to work with Debian.
> 
> I have been sensitive to 'Debian' being mentioned on that list, because I am
> still considering it as a distro now that I have to move away from RH9. I am
> pretty sure that there are many Debian servers 'happily' running Sun's JVM.
> 
> Keep the faith, and try installing Sun's JVM. Go for version 1.4.2. The 1.5
> release has only just come out, so you might want to wait and see how that
> one pans out before installing it.
> 
> I suspect, though I do not know this for a fact, that kaffe is an older
> version of Java - perhaps 1.2 or 1.3. For that reason alone, I would opt for
> Sun's version.
> 
> Yes, the JVM is big - but once you have got it working, Linux and Java (142)
> are a good match, I think!
> 
> All the best.
> 
> Harry Mantheakis
> 
> 
>> I've been struggling to avoid using Java for the last few years, but
>> I've come across a Java program which I absolutely have to run.
>> 
>> The Sun "JVM" is huge, non-free and requires some weird
>> Debian-incompatible installer, all reasons to avoid it.
>> 
>> I tried installing kaffe, which appears to be free, but it throws some
>> sort of stupid CLASSPATH error:
>> 
>> $ java -cp `pwd`/TGWikiBrowser.jar:`pwd`/BrowserLauncher.jar \
>> com.touchgraph.wikibrowser.TGWikiBrowser meatball.txt \
>> http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl? hypermedium 2 false
>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>> 
/usr/local/src/TGWikiBrowser-1/02/TGWikiBrowser/jar:/usr/local/src/TGWikiBrow>>
s
>> er-1/02/BrowserLauncher/jar
>>       at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:38)
>>       at java.lang.Error.<init>(Error.java:21)
>>       at java.lang.LinkageError.<init>(LinkageError.java:21)
>>       at java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.<init>(NoClassDefFoundError.java:21)
>> 
>> Does anyone have any idea what's happening?  The TGWikiBrowser.jar
>> file exists (but not, obviously, TGWikiBrowser/jar).
>> 
>> Why is so bloody hard to get these things working ...?
>> 
>> Rich.

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