From owner-freebsd-java Wed Sep 22 23:14:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE3414EC4 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11U29J-0001eJ-00; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:14:34 -0600 Message-ID: <37E9C548.AF193572@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:14:32 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announce: New release of JDK1.1.8 for FreeBSD References: <199909230514.XAA18035@mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams wrote: > > As always it is my great pleasure to announce another release of the JDK > for FreeBSD. We've re-released JDK1.1.8 after fixing a couple of bugs > in the previous release. A thousand thanks again. > - The ELF version should work better with AWT/Swing applications. The > FreeBSD project donated a more modern copy of Motif that should avoid > some weird X errors that occurred previously. Cool. Do you have an explicity references for obtaining and installing Swing components to work with this release of JDK 1.1.8? > Thanks again go to Keith White who's amazing debugging skills and > knowledge provided all of the above fixes. Thanks Keith! > Thanks also go to the FreeBSD Project who donated a newer copy of Motif > in order to make the more recent ELF releases more stable. If there is something on this order of magnitude I can do to help, let me know. Hopefully I'll see you at the Con... > In other news, the JDK2 port has been going slowly. Because of summer > vacations and the great weather, the developers have spent time enjoying > non-computer things. Damn you all! Get back to work or I'll never take you sailing! ;^) > I expect that as the weather starts to cool down > we'll be spending more time in front of our computer, and the JDK2 > porting effort will ramp back up. I'll wait anxiously. Please know that your work is appreciated. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message