From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 30 21:38:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu26-228-058.nc.rr.com [66.26.228.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651B737B401 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f614d3105090; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:39:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:39:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: David Hill Cc: Subject: Re: java support In-Reply-To: <20010630232918.0e7c957f.djhill@novagate.net> Message-ID: <20010701003802.J5042-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There are Linux versions of JDK in the ports tree that should work the same as any native FreeBSD version. I have personally only used JDK 1.1.8 for FreeBSD, but I have heard good things about the Linux 1.3 port. Joe Clarke On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, David Hill wrote: > Hello - > I am wondering what'll take to have better java support under freebsd. Is it simply the fact that java is not "made" for bsd systems, or is FreeBSD missing something? > > I know java works under FreeBSD, but the performance is not too great. For example, 1.1.8 is included in the ports. Why not 1.2, or a more recent version at that? > > Thanks > - David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message