gentoo - notes

I code mostly in java, so I followed the Gentoo Java Guide to setup my development envirionment. The first step was to emerge the packages that I use:

• Sun
  • Activation Framework (ebuild)
  • Mail (ebuild)
• Apache Software Foundation (mainly from Jakarta)
  • ant (ebuild)
  • commons-beanutils (ebuild)
  • commons-fileupload (ebuild)
  • commons-collections (ebuild)
  • commons-net (ebuild)
  • Element Construction Set (ECS) (ebuild)
  • Poor Obfuscation Implementation (POI)
  • servlet API (ebuild)
  • tomcat (ebuild)
• MySQL
  • MySQL Connector/J (ebuild)
• jfree
  • JFreeChart
• lowagie
  • iText
• logica
  • OpenSMPP toolkit

Unfortunately ebuilds currently don't exist for a number of the packages that I use, so I guess it might be time to get my hands dirty.

Next I configured the environment by using java-config as per the documention, using the following commands:
java-config --set-system-vm=sun-jdk-1.4.2.01
java-config --set-system-classpath=commons-beanutils,commons-collections,commons-fileupload,commons-net,ecs,jaf,javamail,jdbc-mysql,servletapi
followed by
env-update; source /etc/profile