From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 18:52:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87F637B95B for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 18:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA28923; Sat, 6 May 2000 18:51:50 -0700 Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 18:51:50 -0700 From: Arun Sharma Message-Id: <200005070151.SAA28923@sharmas.dhs.org> To: fahad@jackie.groveware.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding Java Runtime Enviroment In-Reply-To: References: Reply-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In muc.lists.freebsd.questions, you wrote: > Hello, > I have a question regading Java Runtime Enviroment (JRE). Where > can I find it?. The concern is that applications and software products > that are Java-based requires Java Runtime Enviroment or JDK to run. JDK > for FreeBSD is not licenses to accompany a commercial product, however JRE > is. The problem is that JRE for FreeBSD is not available (for > compatible with JDK1.2). So, its not convinient for the consumer to out of > their way to get JDK before they have the sofware installed. If JRE 1.2 is > available, it would be the right thing to have in order to port java > based applications or those application which needs Java Core classes to > execute. JRE 1.2 for FreeBSD is not restributable, without express consent from Sun. There is an alpha version of this JRE, that you can build from source. Please read the archives of freebsd-java. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message