I don't seem to hava what you told me to hardwire into my path. I look for it 
thus...

gus# find / -name rt.jar
gus#

...and come up nada. So I decided to check up again, on Java and Swing, 
thus...

gus# pkg_info jdk
Information for jdk-1.1.8:

Comment:
Sun's Java(tm) Development Kit

Required by:
swing-1.1.1
visxml-b8
xerces-j-1.2.0

Description:
This is a package of Sun's Java Development Kit, done by Simon Gerraty
and others, and is in turn based upon the FreeBSD port.

The Java Development Kit is a development environment for writing
applets and applications that conform to the Java Core API.
Its compiler and other tools are run from a shell and have no GUI
interface.

Homepage:
http://www.quick.com.au/java/


gus# pkg_info swing
Information for swing-1.1.1:

Comment:
Sun's Java Foundation Classes (the Swing UI toolkit), version 1.1.1
 
Requires:
jdk-[0-9]*
 
Required by:
visxml-b8
 
Description:
JFC (Swing) is a rich set of UI elements implemented in 100% pure Java which
is the prefered method of UI development under Java 2.  This release contains
a version of the JFC compatible with Java 1.1.
 
Homepage:
http://www.javasoft.com/products/jfc/
 
gus#

...so Java and Swing seem to be installed okay, I would guess. What next?

Thanks,

Gan Starling


On Sunday 17 February 2002 19:50, you wrote:
> From: "Gan Uesli Starling" <oinkfreebiker@att.net>
>
> > Okay, did that. Excerpt from my .cshrc now reads as (I turned off wrap).
> >
> > set path=(/sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/pkg/sbin /usr/pkg/bin
>
> /usr/pkg/java/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin)
>
> > # stuff for vixaml-b8 package
> > set JAVA_HOME=(/usr/pkg/java/bin)
> > set SWING_HOME=(/usr/pkg/lib/java)
> > set
>
> CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib:${JAVA_HOME}/lib/classes.zip:${JAVA_HOME}/jre/{b
>i n,lib}:${SWING_HOME}/swingall.zip
>
> > ...but I still get...
> >
> > gus# visxml
> > Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread
> > Could not create Java VM
> > gus#
>
> Try hardwiring the path to rt.jar into your classpath (like classes.zip). 
> I just checked to verify that that's where the Thread classes live.

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