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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 10:46:14 -0700
From: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
Message-Id: <199509091746.AA03687@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
To: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, jehamby@lightside.com
Subject: Re: Java - is anyone working on this at all?
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net
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   > 
   > On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Stephen Hocking wrote:
   > 
   > > Last I heard, it was dependent on a functional threads library, which we did 
   > > not seem to have after 1.1.5. Is anyone 
   > > 
   > > a) working on pthreads 
   > > (yes, it would be nice to have this in the distribution)
   > > 
   > > b) working on Java.
   > > 
   > 
   > Well the latest pthreads is 1.60 beta 3, which seemed to compile cleanly
   > enough under FreeBSD 2.0.5, although when running the verification tests, the
   > floating point thread test failed.  I will probably investigate this further.
   > 
   > As far Java, that would be VERY interesting to see some people start 
   > working on a port of this to FreeBSD.  If all it needs is a working 
   > threads library, and pthreads would be adequate to the task, why not 
   > start a porting team?  The important thing is that it has to be a SERIOUS 
   > effort in order for Sun to give out the source code to HotJava, so if 
   > anyone wants to start a HotJava porting team, you can count me in...

Did HotJava suffer the same game as OpenWindows. Last I knew the Source code for
Hot Java was available by just filling in a Web form and ftp'ing the source.
I picked up copies of the 2nd and 3ed Beta's and tried compiling them on SunOS
with GCC.