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Yes. Ports of the Sun JDK for FreeBSD are published at this site.

Yes - sometimes it's easy, and sometimes not. X has two commonly used mechanisms for copying and pasting between applications, which can be a bit confusing: The primary selection: this is typical...more

That option is only meaningful with a JVM running green threads. JDK1.3.1 only ships a HotSpot JVM running native threads.

The Sun AWT classes on Unix and Linux have a dependence on the X Window System: when you use the classes, they expect to load X client libraries and be able to talk to an X display server. This ma...more

Check out the jGuru JNI FAQ.

Where can I learn (more) about dealing with 2D (two dimensional) and 3D (three dimensional) images, sound, speech, telelphony, and the rest of Java's support for advanced media handling?

Check out the jGuru Java400 FAQ.

Check out the jGuru AWT FAQ.

Files don't work that way, but you can rotate logs to keep the size under control. You have a couple of ways to do that easily: The log4j package supports log rotation If you're working in a JDK1...more

The limit on native threads comes from the system, not from Java. See this FAQ entry for a discussion of managing thread limits. There is no limit on creation of green threads, other than availabl...more

According to Sun's Java Web Server FAQ: No. There is no supported version of Java Web Server for Linux, but there are customers who have successfully run the Solaris version of Java Web Server 2.0...more

It depends entirely on the application. Most Linux software doesn't publish hardware requirements, which are usually fictions anyway. You can get a development workstation running those components...more

The javac compiler is slow and expensive - I need a way to optimize for my application. I'm trying to run a Java compiler as a response to a POST to a Web site (users submit programs to compile) - ...more

They both use the HotSpot performance engine, but the server VM optimizes aggressively up-front for the benefit of long-term performance, while the client VM defers a lot of optimization to favor ...more

No. It's true that every thread takes an entry from the pid table. But they are still threads, not heavyweight processes, and the same file descriptor table is shared by all the threads.