Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 17:58 +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > Recently I've been looking at OpenExchange on Fedora Core 4. I was > hoping to utilise FC4's extensive free Java tools to build OX. OX > configure script didn't thorw up any problems but make failed witha lot > of errors. Can anyone please guide me how to rectify these problems to > get a completely free groupware solution ? > > Errors : I had a quick look at the errors. Below is an quick analysis, but no real solutions yet. Hopefully others can give more specific suggestions. - the servlet related warnings should be easy to solve. I am actually a Debian user. But I believe Fedora has a package called tomcat5-servlet (which you can use depending on the license of OpenExchange, unfortunately it isn't GPL compatible. There is a LGPL servlet implementation distributed with gnu paperclipse, but I don't know if Fedora ships that.). Try using "yum search servlet". - the sun.misc.BASE64 usage. That one is nasty since that isn't a publicly documented class. It shouldn't be hard to replace that code since base64 en/decoding isn't actually that difficult. (For an examples see gnu/java/net/BASE64.java or gnu/java/io/Base64InputStream.java in GNU Classpath) - ParserDelegator.parse() is missing in gcj4, but we have it in GNU Classpath. This should be backported to libgcj. Same for javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit. (Although it is mainly stubs at the moment.) - The usage of com.sun.mail ImapFolder and Rights is another non-documented, non-free issue. Hopefully that can be fixed by using an appropriate class from GNU mail or inetlib. It looks like this program was developed against a proprietary non-free java platform implementation and the use of non-standard, undocumented classes is a bit of a problem. The biggest issue is the imap and html usage for which it might be some work to create free replacements. But work is already been done on this, so it might not be that hard in the end. Cheers, Mark -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/
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