From owner-freebsd-java Fri Aug 11 8:18:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2163237BF09 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18858 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:18:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17779; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:17:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:17:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008111517.JAA17779@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Native JDK2 on FreeBSD update X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Some good news for a change.... On August 7th, 2000, the FreeBSD JDK team was given access to Sun's JCK (Java Compatability Kit), which will allow us to test and (hopefully!) release a binary version using the current set of patches. Unfortunately, we are unable (for legal reasons) to distribute a JDK that hasn't been run against the JCK like we were able to with the JDK1.1.* releases. Unfortunately, as told by Sun (we have no experience *yet*), running the JCK against the port is a difficult and time-consuming process. Hopefully it won't take us the 3 months that Sun expects it to take. :( Finally, there are still some issues regarding Motif that need to be resolved before a full public release can be made. Sun is working on that front, and we need to try contacting the OpenGroup to see if we can get a special exception for Motif binary distributions to use in the JDK release. - The FreeBSD JDK team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message