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From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Java development and FreeBSD
Date: 1 May 1997 09:10:33 -0500
Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <33667B09.4559@isr.uc.pt>,
Pedro Miguel N.V. Rocha <pmrocha@isr.uc.pt> wrote:
>	You will need kaffe because Sun's JDK won't work on FreeBSD.
>You will need, nevertheless, the file classes.zip from it and a package
>called kaffe (www.kaffe.org) - thing is, there is only support for jdk
>1.0.2 . There are also in the ports collection all that is necessary to
>use awt (I believe it's something like biss.zip, I don't quite remember
>:( ).

there is a JDK 1.0.2 for FreeBSD:

	ftp://freefall.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.11-26.tar.gz

there are a couple people that have started the ball rolling on getting
JDK 1.1 also.

--mark.