From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 10:28:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C94016A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:28:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.thebunker.net [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906B543D1F for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:28:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469459774A; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:28:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1])iBOASVih004974; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:28:33 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <41CBEF4A.10501@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:28:26 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041213) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Skylar Thompson References: <41CA2009.5030002@krisk.org> <41CA22D0.4060104@krisk.org> <20041223211825.GA74194@quark.cs.earlham.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041223211825.GA74194@quark.cs.earlham.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7FB9E15AE2A4884CB54C570E" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java [was: Re: Switching FreeBSD machines] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:28:36 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7FB9E15AE2A4884CB54C570E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Skylar Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > >>to give you a confidence boost, I very recently built jdk14 on >>a 5.3-RELEASE machine *by the instructions*, and it built >>without problems, and apps were able to find it afterwards. >>If that's all that's keeping from starting from scratch, don't >>worry about java; it's not that bad. > > > Does anyone know if JDK1.5 is going to be supported by FreeBSD? I have some > JDK1.5 apps that I've written for Linux that I would like to run on > FreeBSD. I've been unsuccessful in getting JDK1.5 running through Linux > emulation too. Alexey Zelkin just announced on freebsd-java@... that he had succeeded in porting JDK-1.5 to the extent that it is now self-hosting: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2004-December/003286.html Public beta testing releases are expected in January. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --------------enig7FB9E15AE2A4884CB54C570E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQcvvT5r7OpndfbmCAQK7GwQAnxqwYs7wt8BQKR5JM+jW3kJCtGf6oXEk S0yrG9pQ9O8hEmZaaA5mh1QEuBm4XiyREAo57340rAqgJskAoeA5J56x76ckG/6S vQNFcZmeSrvLj198qG6HLV4oaZQIWxJ1BFRNhKArPxBvKp/4WTopnhFatdtlRsrB xM3f0wL7lgI= =70cz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7FB9E15AE2A4884CB54C570E--