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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Java development and FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 03:17:13 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Pedro Miguel N.V. Rocha wrote:
>         You will need kaffe because Sun's JDK won't work on FreeBSD.

Really?  That's certainly news to me and many other people. :-)

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.11-26.tar.gz

Contains the Sun JDK port.  1.1 is being worked on - mail
hsu@freebsd.org if you want to help (AND you have already signed & been
accepted into Sun's source license program so that you can actually
exchange code with him!). :-)

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.