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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Java, JDK & FreeBSD
Date: 29 May 1996 22:32:12 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4og1ro$hlv@marina.cinenet.net>,
Bob Mercier <mercier@cinenet.net> wrote:
>Ivan Lima (ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu) wrote:
>: Does anyone know where I can get some documentation on JDK for FreeBSD
>: and kaffe?  I Installed both in my system but I'm getting error
>: messages when I try to compile java code, like:
>
>I don't know if this is generally known so I'll post it here.  You
>can compile Java source with netscape on FreeBSD...
[snip]
>This works pretty well for me.  While I'm sure it's not as fast
>as kaffe, the last version of kaffe I tried generated different
>bytecode (that crashed) on some applets.

There are now ports for kaffe, as well as jdk and netscape3, in
ports-current (look in the www dictionary).

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James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
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james@jraynard.demon.co.uk