InnoTek has updated its OS/2 Kit for Java product to the most current 1.4.2_04 level.Among the many improvements of 1.4.2_04 are the following highlights:
* updated to the latest Sun J2SE 1.4.2 level
* uses the InnoTek Runtime for better synergy with other InnoTek products (esp. OpenOffice.org for OS/2)
Additionally, version 1.1.1 for OS/2 of OpenOffice was also released, Mark Dodel noted. This is a joint effort between Serenity Systems and InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH. While InnoTek is offering OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 for OS/2 to enterprise customers only, Serenity Systems provides both end users and corporate customers with this unique product. OpenOffice.org for OS/2 is a port of the well known product to the eComStation and OS/2 Warp platforms with special support for InnoTek’s font engine for OS/2.
You have to download and install three products:
* InnoTek Font Engine for OS/2
* InnoTek Runtime for OS/2
* OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 for OS/2, available from Mensys
Note: OpenOffice.org for OS/2 Java support requires InnoTek OS/2 Kit for Java 1.4.2_04
Please download and install the order given above. Refer to the documentation of each component for installation instructions and additional information. Here is the OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 for OS/2 Readme. For support and more information, please refer to the InnoTek Online Support Forums.
I’ll make sure you get another copy of that memo.
I’ll make sure you get another copy of that memo.
Make sure it’s also included in the TPS report.
Don’t use my stapler when your putting together that TPS report or bad things will happen.
Not one of their products encourges me to again take-up OS/2 or eComstation. Java always slowed down OS/2 and made for a difficult life in Thinkpads.
Writing software in ‘Java’ is a sure sign of a lazy coder.
Java free and proud of it !!!
Innotek is offering OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 and not 1.1.1.
See http://www.innotek.de/products/openofficeos2/beta/ooos2general_e.ht…
Well, it’s not really a port of OpenOffice, it’s an ODIN based
wrapper to install and run the windows version of OpenOffice.
Odin is the OS/2 equivalent of Wine for Linux, except it’s
not as advanced.
->sabreman : You must be thinking about the IBM Java, the Innotek SUN Java and the native Goldencode Java are much faster (Also the IBM Java was extremely buggy).
-> Vitor Domingos : According to the Mensys productpage and Innotek productpage the GA is 1.1.1
http://www.innotek.de/products_e.html
http://shop.mensys.nl/cgi-bin/db2www/mns_art2.d2w/report?catname=Op…
Hey Peter! Just want to make sure you got the memo about the new cover letter for TPS reports.
Writing software in ‘Java’ is a sure sign of a lazy coder.
And why is that?
“Well, it’s not really a port of OpenOffice, it’s an ODIN based
wrapper to install and run the windows version of OpenOffice.
Odin is the OS/2 equivalent of Wine for Linux, except it’s
not as advanced.”
Silly comments, actually the OO and most of the other innotek products are partial ports, ie they use odin for most of the stuff but portions of the software are ported, ie the bits that have problems with Odin or where performance in not acceptable.
Secondly odin is achitecturally very different from wine, as for it being “not as advanced” as wine, well each to his own but Odin is much faster and runs windows software and drivers that wine will never run. And Odin is not a wrapper or an emulator, it’s an API translator that takes advantage of that fact that parts of OS/2 and windows have the same or very similar API’s, there is nothing like it on Linux and for technical and political reasons never will be.
Is it true that this release will contain 47 pieces of flair?
Yes it was IBM’s version….and what a load of rubbish it was too.
However, you above all people here well knows nothing can beat a natively coded app on OS/2 !!
The only thing that would get me back onto OS/2 these days would be Odin up and running properly.
Did you ever get a 64 bit cpu powered box running on OS/2 yet ??
For those that do not know/understand Odin. This is the software that is capabile of breathing real life into OS/2.
http://odin.netlabs.org/
Enjoy.
“Yes it was IBM’s version….and what a load of rubbish it was too.”
Indeed…and there will be no version 1.4 for any platform, but instead a 1.3.2, that includes a proper subset of the 1.4 features ….
“Did you ever get a 64 bit cpu powered box running on OS/2 yet ??”
OS/2 is AMD64 certified :o)
One of the first documented attempts (SNAP Graphics has got AMD64 support nowadays)
OS/2 Meets 64-bit Opteron
http://www.os2ezine.com/20030916/page_6.html
> SNAP Graphics has got AMD64 support nowadays
That’s not an accurate statement… SNAP Graphics runs in 32-bit mode on the AMD64 chips. The same is also true of OS/2 (and all the retail AMD64 machines running Windows are also running in 32-bit mode).
Having support is not the same as running native (Pure Long mode) – but the ability to run on the AMD64 (or Opteron as you called it in the announcement AFAIR).
Now it should be specified :o)