Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:55:27 -0800 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jeremiah@sherline.com> To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jeremiah@sherline.com>, "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Java development platform comparison (was: RE: Microsoft Advocacy?) Message-ID: <003101c18b09$a68587e0$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> References: <002801c18aa6$8bcc22a0$6600000a@ach.domain> <000f01c18ab6$0398a1a0$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey>
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> Have you tried developing Java under FreeBSD ? I have. Kudos to those who > are involved in the porting process, but only the Linux JDK with emulation > worked for my needs, and it too had problems. Even if you read the Java for > FreeBSD page, you can see that they're not entirely confident and not > promising anything but their best effort. I was eventually forced to move > my Java programming to Sun's Win32 JDK. You don't need J++ or any other > Java IDE, Sun's JDK works excellently on the platforms they support. Why > the hell they can't port the JDK to FreeBSD, when the whole idea is supposed > to be Multi-Platform, I do not know. announce@freebsd.org said: >The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has secured a >license from Sun Microsystems to distribute a native FreeBSD version of >both the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). >Thanks to the great efforts of the FreeBSD Java team, these should be >available for inclusion with the upcoming release of FreeBSD 4.5 in >January, 2002. Wow, excellent response time. :) Of course the minute I say anything I get my damn foot stuck in my mouth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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