From owner-freebsd-java Wed Jun 27 13: 2:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7EA37B405 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:02:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neshort@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (1Cust9.tnt5.tucson.az.da.uu.net [63.11.146.9]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03541 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B3A3C23.1080508@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:03:47 -0700 From: Neil User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010508 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: production jdk References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9CFD@l04.research.kpn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear Shivak, > > >> when is the FreeBSD team expected to complete a production >> quality JDK for >> Java 2 (1.2) ?? By production quality, I mean comparable in >> performance/stability to the official JDK. >> > > The biggest stumbling block is getting legal go-ahead to distribute the JDK > in binary form. This is a long road to walk. > > We would really appreciate any help you can give us in this process. > > Meanwhile, the Linux JDK's will fill the gap nicely. Really? To this day I have not been able to get an applet to run in Mozilla (0.8.1) nor Star Office (5.2). If it is possible, I have not received a working suggestion on how to make it work. I don't mean to sound unappreciative. I know everyone in working their tails off on this. I'm just frustrated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message