From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 16 15:56: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DC637B421 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GXTMCC01.RFR; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 00:55:24 +0200 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 00:56:15 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <18941524729.20020617005615@dds.nl> To: "Robert A. Decker" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java status? In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Robert, Monday, June 17, 2002, 12:39:58 AM, you wrote: RAD> I'm sorry for asking such a simple question, but I've searched through the RAD> freebsd.org website and can't find a simple answer to this simple RAD> question. RAD> What is the status of java on freebsd? I'm running 4.3-Stable, but am RAD> thinking of upgrading to 4.6 in order to run some web apps on the server. RAD> Is it part of the distribution? Last time I looked, you had to download a RAD> build from somewhere, then apply some patches, etc. It all looked a bit RAD> sketchy... RAD> Is it part of the ports? Will it be? RAD> thanks, RAD> rob Java is part of the ports. It has it own directory with a number of ports. 1.3 is included as are the older version. There is even a special java mailing list. -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook www.freebsd.org/handbook The mailing lists http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list How to get best results from the FreeBSD- questions mailing list http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html Alternative: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message