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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: State of JAVA support for FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:22:51 -0800
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David Richards wrote:
> The 'Kaffe' Java compiler/interpreter builds cleanly on FreeBSD 2.x.x,
> and claims to run 10x as fast as the official Sun JDK.
> 
> http://www.tjwassoc.demon.co.uk/kaffe/kaffe.htm
> 
> available in the US via FTP at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/kaffe/

And if you simply must have the Sun JDK port for FreeBSD to compare it
with, see:
ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.11-26.tar.gz

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project