From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 22 18:21:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA15500 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 18:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA15474 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 18:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA14723; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 18:11:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608230111.SAA14723@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 18:11:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: imp@village.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, didier@omnix.fr.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608222354.RAA04123@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 22, 96 05:54:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > : The jdk in ports/current is 1.02, and the kaffe there specifically needs > > : at least that version to run. > > > > The JDK in ports is the Solaris Sparc version. There is no JDK 1.0.2 > > native port to FreeBSD at this time. > > And given Sun's recent 'attitude' regarding Java, there is *very* little > chance of one happening. Sun is getting very propriatary (sp?) about > Java, and the Linux developers were forced to remove their port of the > JDK from ftp sites after being 'contacted' by Sun's lawyers. > > Sun is no longer 'open' about Java now that they've got enough mindshare > to keep momentum going. It's a pretty cheap way of doing business by > first promising openness and then renigging on it, but it's only too > common in business nowadays. You can download "Visual J++", microsoft's JAVA developement environment for the Microsoft Developer Studio for free from www.microsoft.com (look under 'Products', then 'Developer'). So much for Sun. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.