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Subject: why use diablo JDK/JRE ?
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Masoom Shaikh writes:

>  what is the need for FreeBSD Foundation to maintain dialbo JDK/JRE
>  binaries when packages for openjdk are available on ftp servers ?
>  
>  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/java/openjdk-7.0.86.tbz
>  
>  stupid me, never realized, just assumed that openjdk binaries cannot
>  be distributed
>  I always used to download diablo, then build openjdk :(
>  such a waste of time/effort

	As far as I know, openjdk does not provide browser plugins.
	If that's not a problem ....


				Robert Huff