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Subject: Re: Java support not in FreeBSD 4.5R after all?
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 --- David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > Thus spake
Matt Sykes <mattmsykes@yahoo.co.uk>:
> > > >I've eagerly installed FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE but sadly I could
> not
> > > find a
> > > >trace of the native JDK/JRE.
> > 
> > Then what is ports/java/jdk13?  I have built this and used it.
> 
> Yes, but to get it, you have to agree to the Sun license, download
> the
> file from Sun, get patches from another site, install a certified
> Linux port of JDK to compile the source, and then maybe it will
> work.
> Once the FreeBSD port is certified, it can be distributed in binary
> form without all of the caveats of the port. 

But just to answer the poster's question,

"Is there an equivalent (non-certified but stable) tool suite
available for FreeBSD right now?",

the answer is yes, there is a native JDK 1.3.1 for FreeBSD.
I don't know what others may claim about stability, but I 
have not found any shortcomings.

--Matt



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