Java problems with Red Hat

[Marcel2008]

Hello,

I have Red Hat Wolverine Beta. I installed Sun Jdk1.3, and IBM java2 1.3.
However IBM gives me stack overflows, and jdk1.3 only runs the javac correctly.
Appletviewer, java and other don't work. Nothing happens.

Are there known problems with red hat and java?

[Carnel]

Originally posted by Marcel2008:
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Appletviewer, java and other don't work. Nothing happens.

Are there known problems with red hat and java?

I had this problem when I tried using Java on my box as well (RH 6.1), it was a while ago, and I don't remember everything about the problem I had, but I know that part of the problem was with the native threads I think. I wasn't able to come to a resolution for the problem, though I didn't try to hard at the time. Hmmm, I realize this isn't a very useful help. What I think I remember is that java was actually a script (I believe). And that things weren't pointing in it to where they should have been. Good luck, and let me know if you come up with a solution.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Although this is your particular problem, it's nice to know that the JDK version 1.2.anything does not work on Red Hat 7.0

[Marcel2008]

Should i switch to an other distro?
Like mandrake? I want to develop under linux.
Do you recommend other distro's?

[Carnel]

Well, currently Java isn't highly supported or used with Linux <edit> much </edit>, and if you're getting into serious developement (especially anything kernel/daemon etc related) then you should serious consider C (or to a smaller extent C++ which is good, and used for KDE, but not many things unfortunately)

[ 28 March 2001: Message edited by: Carnel ]

[nanode]

I've used java with Slackware, TurboLinux, Mandrake 6.1 and RH6.2. jdk1.3 works great with Slackware 7.1. I'm really surprised that it wouldn't work on some distros.

I've heard a lot of odd complaints about RH7.0. If you're really into development, try a more "hands on" distro like Slackware or Debian.

[Carnel]

Marcel, I'll adress one aspect of what may also be an issue. You said you're using RH Wolverine Beta, which I believe is the 7.1 Beta? Well because it is still a devel release, and not stable, I wouldn't be surprized if many things didn't work (especially after RH's 7.0 release). You're best bet, for doing any developement of any sort is to use a stable version of any Distro. My general rule when it comes to beta, especially with a distro's beta version, it's there to get a sneak preview of new features, and play around with... and to crash.

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As per my two pennies as to which distro you may switch to:
Slack - Good, stable for developement. Contains alot of manual work to use as a normal work station, but excellent near out of the box for devel stuff.
RH - Good for devel stuff and for workstations. Not many distro's have the "xxxx-devel-x.xx" dirs (such as in /usr/doc) which is a good place to look for tutorials, guides, etc. Has many libs pre-compiled and ready for use.
MD - Excellent workstation for ease of use. Not sure about Devel stuff because with as much as it has running at once, it may be a tad slower on compiling (don't know for certain, never did a benchmark to check). Being based off RH, it has many of it's advanages, but there are some down falls. I can't remember exactly why right now, but it won't install Helix gnome, or some of the libs it uses.
Corel (and others like it) - Generally good for a complete newbie, but isn't something that would work well for devel as they have a tendency to be slow, and w/o many langauges.

Note: this is my opinion mainly based on how well I think they would work for developement. It isn't to start a flame war or anything. In general, most would have to agree with my comments. Also, this is only a couple of the main distro's not trying to be a concise list or anything. If you want to get picky about it. Do bench marks and post the results.

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[ 28 March 2001: Message edited by: Carnel ]