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From: stephen farrell <stephen+usenet@farrell.org>
Subject: Re: JDK 1.1?
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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 04:47:26 GMT
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Pedro Miguel das Neves Valenca Rocha <pmrocha@isr.uc.pt> writes:

> Hi,
> I would like to know if there is a port or an implementation of the
> JDK 1.1 for FreeBSD (where it actually is would be nice, too). 

As I understand it, there is not.  Jeffrey Hsu says he gave his
patches for 1.02 to "someone" who is working on 1.1, but didn't recall
who that person was (perhaps he reads this newsgroup?)

Also, someone else posted in this group that he had some success
running the linux port of the jdk available at java.blackdown.org.
He did not comment on how robust it was (one good test would be
whether it can run HotJava).

Personally, I'm not too thrilled with the linux port (I've clocked it
at >5x slower than sol/x86) and the lack of freebsd port... so I'm
seriously contemplating switching over to solaris/x86 on my desktop
=(.

--sf