Hello  Joshua

My name is David,

I saw you name n the Gentoo page

I would be extremely grateful if you could give me some answers  and advice.

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

1-  Are these  now available  on the Gentoo disks or are they  supported by
Gentoo ?  - I have  been to your java developer  page on Gentoo and it looks
very  active and exciting  , really  nice to see a linux distribution that
is really working so hard on java integration   - but I   would  like to
know the status of things

2- where are  the precise instructions to download the above mentioned
packages (if they not installed already on  Gentoo)  ?    Is it a simple
process?

3- Can I run  javaEE5   built applications on  Gentoo   with only the  jdk
5.0   kit  installed  or do also   need to install   javaEE5  ?     i know
Sun has now  open source java  to Gentoo but  i dont know  how far it goes -
ie does it include  javaEE5?

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.

Thankyou in advance  for clearing up these issues with respect to Gentoo.

David