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From: Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@syncrontech.com>
To: Mike Murphree <w4lna@knology.net>,
	"Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Subject: Re: Ugrade from linux-jdk to native
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:12:58 +0200
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Hi,


On Friday 01 March 2002 14:38, Mike Murphree wrote:
> On Friday 01 March 2002 03:39 am, Koster, K.J. wrote:
> > Dear Mike,
> >
> > > > > Good question.  Is there any reason to use native jdk instead
> > > > > of the new version of the linux jdk?
> > > >
> > > > For most things it isn't. You'll need native for doing JNI
> > > > stuff. Everything else works fine in the Linux JDK's.
> > >
> > > Along these lines, I have a Java program that works on both Windows
> > > and Linux which uses libraries to perform serial I/O and I would
> > > like to get it operating under FreeBSD.  Is this not possible under
> > > the Linux emulation or do I need a native JDK to make it work?
> >
> > There is a JavaComm port or somesuch. Isn't that a library to conduct
> > serial I/O from Java? It might have ports to all the platforms you need.
> 
> It does not.  Only Windows, Linux, and probably Solaris.
> 

	Yes it does. Sun supports only operating systems above,	
	but there is freebsd-commapi port, which provides FreeBSD-support
	to it. The port is not yet committed to ports tree, but there has 
	bee progress today. There are just a few port Makefile -specific
	problems to be solved which are there mostly because it was
	the first port Makefile written by me.

		Ari S.

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