Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 15:08:06 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Yandle <joe@wlcg.com> To: java@freebsd.org Subject: Your Report: Port jdk-1.2.x to FreeBSD (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991106150608.21388A-100000@sith.wlcg.com>
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This is the automatic reply from the JDC. Joe Yandle Internet Programmer Westlake Consulting Group ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 11:59:04 -0800 (PST) From: nobody@java.sun.com To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Your Report: Port jdk-1.2.x to FreeBSD ************************************************ Your report has been assigned an internal review ID of: 97555 This review ID is NOT visible on the "Java Developer Connection" (JDC). We greatly appreciate your interest in improving the quality of Java(tm) Technology from Sun Microsystems. Please be aware that the large volume of reports we receive sometimes prevents us from responding individually to each message. We currently have a three week response time for responding to Bug Reports. If the information is determined to be a new bug, or a duplicate of a known bug, you will receive a followup email containing a seven digit bug number. You may search for this bug number on the "Java Developer Connection" (JDC) at this URL: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/index.html. If you just reported an issue that could have a major impact on your project and you require a response, please consider purchasing one of the support offerings at this URL: http://java.sun.com/support/index.html -------------------------------------------- user_type: E security: 1 description: Since I'm requesting a jdk port that doesn't exist, it would be difficult to execute java -version. Please, port jdk-1.2.x (and future releases) to FreeBSD. As a member of the free software community, I appreciate Sun's recent commitment to providing a supported jdk for linux. However, linux is not the only fish in the free OS ocean; many linux users (myself included) eventually migrate to the *BSD systems. Yet I am unable to use FreeBSD at work due to the lack of a good jdk-1.2 implementation. Though we use FreeBSD for a variety of tasks, we cannot use it as a production server for our servlet projects. I usually end up doing development on my linux box, then using NT as the production platform. The lack of a jdk-1.2 implementation for FreeBSD helps no one except Microsoft. The FreeBSD commmunity would greatly appreciate either a supported jdk port or help from Sun in the ongoing FreeBSD-java porting project: http://www.freebsd.org/java/ BTW, I chose solaris 7 as the OS above due to lack of an 'other' choice. workaround: It is possible to use the linux jdk under FreeBSD using linux emulation. While many FreeBSD users do this, it is far from an optimal solution. The following FreeBSD port will grab the linux jdk and apply the necessary patches: http://www.jmcm.org/tech/ports/linux-jdk1.2.tar.gz cust_name: Joe Yandle type: rfe cust_email: joe@wlcg.com category: java subcategory: other crash: 1 synopsis: Port jdk-1.2.x to FreeBSD dateCreated: November 6, 1999 11:59:02 AM jdcid: jyandle severity: 3 OSversion: sol2.7 data_loss: 1 hardware: x86 performance: 1 user_role: D company: Westlake Consulting Group minusVersion: Since I'm requesting a jdk port that doesn't exist, it would be difficult to execute java -version. hang: 1 comments: (company - Westlake Consulting Group , email - joe@wlcg.com) status: Waiting release: 1.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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