From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 2 20:46:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA07754 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 20:46:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ian.broken.net (R-ddo.resnet.ucsb.edu [128.111.120.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA07739 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 20:46:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ian@localhost) by ian.broken.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) id UAA06997; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 20:46:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19970202131610.PH42888@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 20:33:51 -0800 (PST) From: Ian Struble To: (David O'Brien) Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/sawt - Imported sources Cc: ports@freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is also the case at UC Santa Barbara where they are even teaching a Compilers class with Java! It is definetly spready out past the boundarys of the web and applets. While on the subject of java, I have to ask what can you use to compile java without a copy of the old 2.2 netscape? Ian On 02-Feb-97 David O'Brien wrote: >Speaking of kaffe, jdk, sawt, et al. I'd really like to see these moved >to devel. At UC-Davis many profs/students are starting to do standalone >programs in Java. Even non-networked ones. > >Just because the most common use *today* of Java is with the WWW, Java is >really not tied to it. > >-- >-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)