Java on FreeBSD

[buttmanizer]

Step 0: make sure that your ports collection is up to
date (you may need to use cvsup)
Step 1: pkgdb -F
Step 2: portsdb -Ufu
Step 3: cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 && make install clean

native jdk on freebsd is stable (1.4.2). been using it
to run tomcat and jboss on a medium-traffic website.
the sun-linux jdk is somewhat unstable. i hope this
helps.

--- buttmanizer

--- babaloo munchies <babaloomunchies at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We want to install Java on FreeBSD 5.3.  We want
> either the 
> linux-blackdown-jdk14, linux-sun-jdk14 or
> linux-ibm-jdk14 package OR 
> port.  Neither is available.  We do NOT want to
> build Java natively on 
> FreeBSD.
> 
> Your website indicates that all of these ports
> should be available 
> under the "Java" directory.  However, they do not
> exist when we FTP in. 
>   This has proved most frustrating.
> 
> Additionally, when we try to install only the Java
> ports directory from 
> sysinstall, none of these ports appears under the
> Java branch of the 
> tree.
> 
> How can we get one of these 3 packages or ports from
> ftp.FreeBSD?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> babaloo

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