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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!news From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: State of JAVA support for FreeBSD? Date: 30 Jan 1997 20:52:30 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 18 Sender: jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Message-ID: <5cr1me$lau@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <32F0FBBE.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: fallout.campusview.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 To: Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34761 [Posted and mailed] In article <32F0FBBE.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de>, Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> writes: > 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 > the Linux ELF binaries won't run yet. ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.11-26.tar.gz This works on the 2.2 and presumably 3.0 branches of FreeBSD. If I understand previous postings correctly, with a couple tweaks to your system it will run on some 2.1.x editions of FreeBSD, but someone else will have to help out on what those tweaks might be. The linux JDK also works on FreeBSD-2.2. -john