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Subject: Re: Java development platform comparison (was: RE: Microsoft Advocacy?)
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:55:27 -0800
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> Have you tried developing Java under FreeBSD ?  I have.  Kudos to those
who
> are involved in the porting process, but only the Linux JDK with emulation
> worked for my needs, and it too had problems.  Even if you read the Java
for
> FreeBSD page, you can see that they're not entirely confident and not
> promising anything but their best effort.  I was eventually forced to move
> my Java programming to Sun's Win32 JDK.  You don't need J++ or any other
> Java IDE, Sun's JDK works excellently on the platforms they support.  Why
> the hell they can't port the JDK to FreeBSD, when the whole idea is
supposed
> to be Multi-Platform, I do not know.

announce@freebsd.org said:

>The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has secured a
>license from Sun Microsystems to distribute a native FreeBSD version of
>both the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
>Thanks to the great efforts of the FreeBSD Java team, these should be
>available for inclusion with the upcoming release of FreeBSD 4.5 in
>January, 2002.

Wow, excellent response time.  :)

Of course the minute I say anything I get my damn foot stuck in my mouth.


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