<AWT Dev> [indiana-discuss] any hope to see java5 into indiana?

[Mark Reinhold]

> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:24:15 +0200
> From: Luca Morettoni <luca at morettoni.net>

> I try to install java5SE under indiana snv_96 (for sun spot developing)
> put if I try to intall java5 pkg's I receive the warning about motif
> package, and when I run javaws I receive this error:
> 
> $ javaws
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
> /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/i386/motif21/libmawt.so: ld.so.1:
> java: fatal: libXm.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory
> 	at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
> 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1751)
> 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1647)
> 	at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:769)
> 
> any hope to use java5 and/or sun Spot under opensolaris?

The default AWT toolkit in JDK 5 on Solaris is Motif, but OpenSolaris
doesn't (yet, so far as I know) have a Motif library.

In JDK 5 there's an alternative AWT toolkit, XAWT, which is a complete
rewrite that depends only upon Xlib and contains very little native code.
XAWT became the default on Solaris in JDK 6, but you can enable it on JDK
5 by following the instructions in the JDK 5 AWT guide [1].

A higher-level question, though, is why do you need JDK 5 in the first
place?  If there's a compatibility issue preventing you from using JDK 6
then we'd really like to know about it.

- Mark


[1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/awt/1.5/xawt.html