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From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: State of JAVA support for FreeBSD
Date: 31 Jan 1997 01:17:24 GMT
Organization: Ripco Communications Inc.
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In article <32F0FBBE.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
Gunther Schadow  <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>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. I had problems to use the
>netscape_javac compiler. I would like to start developing Java
>applications soon, any chance with FreeBSD?

The 'Kaffe' Java compiler/interpreter builds cleanly on FreeBSD 2.x.x,
and claims to run 10x as fast as the official Sun JDK.



http://www.tjwassoc.demon.co.uk/kaffe/kaffe.htm

available in the US via FTP at:

ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/kaffe/
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