From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GMWPS-000277-A1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:00:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8AKxiXK032091; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:59:44 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8AKxh8e016464 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:59:43 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so1529348wxc for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:59:43 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Nd8An/ek/oE8gxYnJUyfG5IIO7vxGceV8XFa81HGZQVZOfhN3Fwn2M122MugDfe0kIFLze4wIwtGEUssiU24BBf/wLHEPl5T+10qUKEQXxXQo4ZRUNvu2fi3f03fjPpaJtd/YtWqn04ppATXIyeuEJxemG4bqmmXTFkV3/APLCU= Received: by 10.70.33.10 with SMTP id g10mr4702406wxg; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.66.7 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <254054bc0609101359m2312d53i231f0b3deb3fb848@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:59:42 +0200 From: "Wiktor Wandachowicz" To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] [Fwd: Advice on Gentoo support for java] Cc: "David B" In-Reply-To: <4503A84D.1010503@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4503A84D.1010503@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: a3c5859c-ee17-4991-8e26-0f7c79aade55 X-Archives-Hash: 3ff14bb45622a36128aec56fd748721f > I want to use Java 5.0 JDK and netbeans 5.5 and java EE5. and > also the sun glassfish open source server on Gentoo if it is possible My experience is that they work perfectly, with one minor hiccup: there are currently no ebuilds for all things you've mentioned. However, after downloading them and installing manually all things work very well. I've been running on such setup for over a year already (with different beta versions and daily builds of Java 5/Java 6/NetBeans/GlassFish) and I'm very happy with it. > 1- Are these now available on the Gentoo disks or are they supported > by Gentoo ? sun-jre-1.5.0 and sun-jdk-1.5.0 are supported very well. New NetBeans (note that it is still in beta!) and GlassFish are not yet fully supported, as far as I can tell. But eventually they will be ;-) > 2- where are the precise instructions to download the above mentioned > packages (if they not installed already on Gentoo)? Is it a simple > process? For JDK 5.0 it's as simple as following the new Java guide and unmasking some packages. The rest is done via emerge. See: * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml For NetBeans 5.5 you need to download a Linux installer directly from www.netbeans.org, make it executable and run it as root. By default it installs NetBeans IDE in /opt and proposes to install Sun's application server 9.0 (aka GlassFish) in /opt as well. This procedure is very similar to the Windows installation, and only the paths are different. It's also possible to install GlassFish separately. Instructions can be found on the GlassFish site: * https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html in section "Instructions to unbundle and configure GlassFish". > 3- Can I run javaEE5 built applications on Gentoo with only the jdk > 5.0 kit installed or do also need to install javaEE5? Java Enterprise Edition is just a standard for building solutions (application servers, libraries, etc.) which provide services compliant with Java EE standard. For what is worth, it's enough to install some application server (newest GlassFish or JBoss for example) to be able to perfectly run Java EE 5 applications. > Sorry for the length of questions but I have tried hard to get a good > linux distro with good java support and I am hoping Gentoo is the one > for me. I stayed with Gentoo exactly for its first class Java support. Even some good folks from Sun are involved in gentoo-java mailing list and have interest in helping to provide one of the best Java support for Gentoo. I sincerely hope that you will like it. Right now it requires a bit of manual work to get a full-blown developer environment with the latest and the greatest Java packages. But IMHO it's still far less work than with any other Linux distributions out there. See also: * http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.java * http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.java/1231 * https://jdos.dev.java.net/ Hope this helps. Cheers! Wiktor Wandachowicz -- Registered Linux user #390131 (http://counter.li.org) -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list