OpenJDK status on FreeBSD

[Dave]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:41:30AM +0900, Maho NAKATA wrote:
>From: Dave <dfeustel at mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re: OpenJDK status on FreeBSD
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:12:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:54:34AM +0900, Maho NAKATA wrote:
>> >Dear FreeBSD Java team
>> >(Cc: Kay Ramme),
>> >
>> >I'm Nakata Maho who is maintaining OpenOffice.org FreeBSD ports
>> >for long time. Here I read Kay's blog entry
>> >http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/switching_to_java_1_5
>> >and
>> >he is collecting the status of OpenJDK for platforms.
>> >http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenJDK
>> >
>> >So - I'd like to ask you about OpenJDK porting status.
>> >AFAIK, it is not available in the ports tree :)
>> >-- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/
>> 
>> JDKs and JREs for FreeBSD are available from
>> http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml.
>> 
>> Tarballs are available now, packages will be available in a few days.
>:)
>Thanks for your reply...but I'd like to know OpenJDK status,
>and it seems Javas we can download here
>http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml.
>are all 1.6.0. Is OpenJDK==1.6.0? 
>
>Thanks,
>-- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/

The latest and greatest OpenJDK appears to be version 7.
Read about the status of OpenJDK at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK.