From owner-freebsd-java Tue May 12 16:38:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25040 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oznet14.ozemail.com.au (oznet14.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25022 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 16:38:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe.shevland@horizonti.com) Received: from fac_c1292 (pc111.slt.tased.edu.au [147.41.72.111]) by oznet14.ozemail.com.au (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA13341; Wed, 13 May 1998 09:38:16 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3558DD61.5565@horizonti.com> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:38:09 +1000 From: Joe Shevland Reply-To: joe.shevland@horizonti.com Organization: Horizon Techonologies International X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dpatil@cisco.com CC: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jre, jfc on BSD References: <35588D55.7C6A@cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Devadas Patil wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam: > > 1. I would like to know if the JFC -Swing release offered by Sun on > Solaris can directly be used on free BSD? The swing release comprises of > java binaries in jar files. I presume these can be ported directly. I > also noted that there is no difference in these jar files for the > Solaris platform and WIndows 95/NT platforms. Yes, the foundation classes and Swing are both available on FreeBSD. > 2. Is there a JRE for freeBSD? If so, what is the URL? Yes. Check out http://www.freebsd.org/java. I believe the FreeBSD java team are in the process of starting to port the JDK 1.1.6. There may be further sources of information regarding Java on the FBSD pages. > 3. If the answer to (1) is NO, are there plans to release a JFC-Swing > package for the BSD platform? > Hope this helps. -- Joe Shevland Horizon Technologies International Team Leader L7, 65 Murray Street, Hobart TAS 7000 WWW: http://www.HorizonTechnologies.com Email: Joe.Shevland@Horizonti.com Phone: +61-3-6231-9335 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message