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From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
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To: gwh@spiders.com
Subject: Re: JDK-1.0.2?
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  > Is any work still being done to port the latest JDK to
  > FreeBSD?  There is a partial port of JDK-1.0 from back in February in

And that was the last time I had any time to work on it.  It probably
works for graphical applets if I could just relink it or something simple
like that, but now I'd want to start over again with 1.0.2.  I have a one-half
block of semi-free time coming up which I can use to do either a 1.0.2
port or to debug lingering Lite2 problems.  There are other considerations
like the fact that JDK 1.1 is due out between September (now) and December
of this year and will represent the biggest change since the HotJava Alpha
to JDK beta transition and that we are still lacking supporting work on the
base operating system for things like weak symbols and threads.  As the
JDK 1.0 port shows, a port can be done without these, but it's hard.  Of
course, the source is available from Sun and the hardest part, bootstrapping
the bits which are written in Java, is already taken care of for you since
you can use the JDK 1.0 binaries, so I would encourage anyone with the
inclination and lots of knowledge of threads, bootstrapping compilers,
dynamic linking, and Java to do a port and help out all the folks
asking for a port.