Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:37:22 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Announce: JDK1.1.8 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199906072337.RAA09913@mt.sri.com>
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As always, it is my great pleasure to announce the newest version of the Java Development Kit for JDK1.1 ported to FreeBSD. Note, FreeBSD along with one of the available JIT compilers makes for a very nice development/deployment platform for Java applications. (Check out the WWW page for pointers on the various JIT compilers). As always, all the necessary information is available on the official FreeBSD Java webpage, at: http://www.freebsd.org/java Both FreeBSD 2.2 using A.OUT binaries and FreeBSD 3.X/4.X are supported with ELF format binaries. Make sure to grab the correct version, or better yet use the FreeBSD's port system which will give you the correct release (/usr/ports/lang/jdk). New for this release: +++++++++++++++++++++ - JDK1.1.8 support, which includes a number of security fixes supplied by Sun. In addition, a few bugfixes accompanied this release. - LOCALE support should now work again. - Timezone should be correctly detected in FreeBSD 3.X/4.X. - Older FreeBSD ELF releases (3.0R,3.1R) should be supported without the need to patch the operating system or install a new runtime loader. If you have problems, send email to java-port@FreeBSD.org. JDK2 status: ------------ With the release of the JDK2 diffs from the Linux project, it should make the porting effort easier. However, with vacations, JavaOne, and other issue it is not expected that a JDK2 port will be forthcoming anytime in the near future. Also, the recent JDK1.1.8 port allows us to more easily port the FreeBSD changes to the new JDK2 code-base. However, if you just need Swing support, the JDK1 port above along with the seperate Swing distribution for JDK1 works *very* well, and is much faster and more stable than the Swing distribution that is part of JDK2 (on all platforms). For other needs such as JINI and Java2/3D, you'll need to port JDK2 or wait for the team to finish the port. - The FreeBSD JDK team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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