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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!web3.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: JDK for FreeBSD Date: 15 Dec 1996 21:04:41 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <591p59$3ph@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <32AD41AC.41C67EA6@telusplanet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32663 james earl <james_earl@telusplanet.net> writes: >I was wondering if someone could fill me in on what JDK to use for >FreeBSD? The JDK-1.0.2 port used the sparc version from Sun rather than >the x86; is this correct? After it installed the port, the binaries >were nowhere to be found. (not(ice): I'm not to fluent with FreeBSD). With java the libraries are machine independant, this is what you picked up from sun. You still need a "java virtual machine" to run all the java libraries you got ( the java compiler is a java program, you just need a virtual machine to run it on ). The person who ported a FreeBSD version of the virtual machine only ported a version that works on FreeBSD-2.2 and up. The release of FreeBSD-2.2 is just around the corner if you're not already running a test version of it already. If you don't want to run aplications with graphics you can use netscape as a java virtual machine. Applets work OK, its just aplications with graphics you can't run. Kaffe is another virtual machine, but I'm not sure if it supports aplications with graphics yet. David.