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Web-Based Java Compiler Service

Posted by timothy on from the web-services dept.

TheSync writes "Ronald Tschalär has set up a Web-based Java compiler service. Just type in your source file names and the JDK you'd like to compiler them with (1.1.8,1.2.2,1.3.1 or 1.4.1), and hit "compile." This makes getting started with Java easier, since you don't have to get the whole JDK."

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  1. Be careful! by clambake · · Score: 5, Interesting

    foreach $file (@uploadedfiles) {

    insertRootExploit($file);

    }

  2. Don't need no stinkin' memo! by fm6 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You're right, nobody told me. So, just out of curiousity, I installed it. Just a few problems.
    • It only accesses the "Sun download center", not the JDK files on java.sun.com.
    • There's a JDK on the SDC. Not the latest beta, but newbies want a production release anyway. Except that I can't find a link to the Windows version. It's supposed to be there, but whatever I do I always end up with the Solaris/86 version!
    • There's a link to the SDC on java.sun.com, but it isn't very conspicious. Someone browsing java.sun.com could be excused for thinking that the SDC didn't include any Java software.
    • I couldn't get the stupid download manager to work, anyway.
    All this weirdness would seem to be the result of the long rivalry between two of Sun's operating companies, JavaSoft and SunSoft. Of course, they're called something else now (I can't be bothered to keep up), but the rivalry it the same as ever. Did I mention that there's a lot of politics and bureaucracy at Sun?