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From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: State of JAVA support for FreeBSD?
Date: 30 Jan 1997 20:35:02 GMT
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Gunther Schadow (gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de) wrote:

: what is the state of Java support on FreeBSD? Is there a port of
: the JDK environment, like compiler and debugger to FreeBSD? I guess

There's an unsupported JDK port somewhere on freebsd.org.

: the Linux ELF binaries won't run yet. I had problems to use the
: netscape_javac compiler. I would like to start developing Java
: applications soon, any chance with FreeBSD?

Sounds like a job for 2.2 which supports ELF from what I recall...

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