Java on FreeBSD 5.0

[wagner at wtb.com.br]

Well, guys. I am an enthusiast of FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and I don't like seeing 
Linux supporting Java before *BSD.

Is there any official effort to (sup)port Java in FreeBSD? I am very 
experienced in base software develpoment (C and C++, unices and Windows) and 
perharps I can help, if needed.

By the way, is it (freebsd-java) an open discussion list?

Thank you guys for your help.

Wagner.
WTB Tecnologia

Tom Samplonius <tom at sdf.com>:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> 
> ...
> > You need to install the linux JDK first, because is is required to 
> > build the FreeBSD JDK from source. Even though 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/java/newsflash.html says that the native JDK 
> > will be available in January 2002 it doesn't appear that this is yet 
> > available.
> 
>   I think it was a bad idea to annouce a Java JDK port before Sun has
> signed off on it.  Besides, this upcoming native FreeBSD JDK is almost
> certainly going to be 1.3.1, and therfore can't be used to bootstrap a jdk
> 1.4.1 compile anyhow.
> 
> > Ari Maniatis
> 
> Tom


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