java

[bluesky]

Greetings!
I'm still waiting for the ISO downloads to become available, but I'd like to double check what's available for 'out of the box' support. When I looked at the available packages, I saw Eclipse. Is java finally supported? Did anyone have get to play/work with it?

Thank you so much in advance.

[Amjad]

YDL officially support Eclipse 3.1. the only problem is that mozilla plugin is kind of broken. so the welcome page will show the HTML code . Just cancelling it will open eclipse and you can go in help window to get all the help

[bluesky]

Finally got around to messing with java on YDL 5.0.2 and NetBeans 5.5.1

Started out with the following instructions:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/suppo ... -jre.shtml
EXCEPT IN STEP 4: download the SDK instead of just the jre.

After that I run:

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export PATH=/opt/ibm/java2-ppc-50/jre/bin:$PATH

subsequently running

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java -version

confirmed that java 1.5 is alive!

Next, downloaded .zip version of NetBeans 5.5.1 for Linux:
http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/start.php?f_id=20201&lang_id=1

After unzipping it to a directory of my pick, found the Netbeans.conf file in Netbeans/etc dir and told it where to find the IBM SDK:

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# default location of J2SE JDK, can be overridden by using --jdkhome <dir> switch
#netbeans_jdkhome="/path/to/jdk"
netbeans_jdkhome=/opt/ibm/java2-ppc-50


Then navigated to the Netbeans/bin and run ./netbeans

Netbeans started, created a simple test web app, build it, run it!

Thank you to all that contributed in different threads here, like this one:
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http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopi ... light=java
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Also, Nan Null from the nbusers@netbeans.org mailing list.
I don't think I'd be able to make it work otherwise.