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> I want to use Java 5.0 JDK and netbeans 5.5 and java EE5. and |
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> also the sun glassfish open source server on Gentoo if it is possible |
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My experience is that they work perfectly, with one minor hiccup: there |
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are currently no ebuilds for all things you've mentioned. However, after |
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downloading them and installing manually all things work very well. I've |
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been running on such setup for over a year already (with different beta |
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versions and daily builds of Java 5/Java 6/NetBeans/GlassFish) and I'm |
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very happy with it. |
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> 1- Are these now available on the Gentoo disks or are they supported |
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> by Gentoo ? |
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sun-jre-1.5.0 and sun-jdk-1.5.0 are supported very well. New NetBeans |
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(note that it is still in beta!) and GlassFish are not yet fully |
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supported, as far as I can tell. But eventually they will be ;-) |
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> 2- where are the precise instructions to download the above mentioned |
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> packages (if they not installed already on Gentoo)? Is it a simple |
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> process? |
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For JDK 5.0 it's as simple as following the new Java guide and unmasking |
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some packages. The rest is done via emerge. See: |
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* http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml |
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For NetBeans 5.5 you need to download a Linux installer directly from |
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www.netbeans.org, make it executable and run it as root. By default it |
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installs NetBeans IDE in /opt and proposes to install Sun's application |
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server 9.0 (aka GlassFish) in /opt as well. This procedure is very |
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similar to the Windows installation, and only the paths are different. |
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It's also possible to install GlassFish separately. Instructions can |
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be found on the GlassFish site: |
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* https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html |
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in section "Instructions to unbundle and configure GlassFish". |
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> 3- Can I run javaEE5 built applications on Gentoo with only the jdk |
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> 5.0 kit installed or do also need to install javaEE5? |
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Java Enterprise Edition is just a standard for building solutions |
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(application servers, libraries, etc.) which provide services compliant |
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with Java EE standard. For what is worth, it's enough to install some |
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application server (newest GlassFish or JBoss for example) to be able |
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to perfectly run Java EE 5 applications. |
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> Sorry for the length of questions but I have tried hard to get a good |
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> linux distro with good java support and I am hoping Gentoo is the one |
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> for me. |
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I stayed with Gentoo exactly for its first class Java support. Even some |
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good folks from Sun are involved in gentoo-java mailing list and have |
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interest in helping to provide one of the best Java support for Gentoo. |
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I sincerely hope that you will like it. Right now it requires a bit of |
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manual work to get a full-blown developer environment with the latest |
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and the greatest Java packages. But IMHO it's still far less work than |
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with any other Linux distributions out there. |
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See also: |
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* http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.java |
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* http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.java/1231 |
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* https://jdos.dev.java.net/ |
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Hope this helps. Cheers! |
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Wiktor Wandachowicz |
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