Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:38:09 +1000 From: Joe Shevland <joe.shevland@horizonti.com> To: dpatil@cisco.com Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jre, jfc on BSD Message-ID: <3558DD61.5565@horizonti.com> References: <35588D55.7C6A@cisco.com>
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Devadas Patil wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam: > > 1. I would like to know if the JFC -Swing release offered by Sun on > Solaris can directly be used on free BSD? The swing release comprises of > java binaries in jar files. I presume these can be ported directly. I > also noted that there is no difference in these jar files for the > Solaris platform and WIndows 95/NT platforms. Yes, the foundation classes and Swing are both available on FreeBSD. > 2. Is there a JRE for freeBSD? If so, what is the URL? Yes. Check out http://www.freebsd.org/java. I believe the FreeBSD java team are in the process of starting to port the JDK 1.1.6. There may be further sources of information regarding Java on the FBSD pages. > 3. If the answer to (1) is NO, are there plans to release a JFC-Swing > package for the BSD platform? > Hope this helps. -- Joe Shevland Horizon Technologies International Team Leader L7, 65 Murray Street, Hobart TAS 7000 WWW: http://www.HorizonTechnologies.com Email: Joe.Shevland@Horizonti.com Phone: +61-3-6231-9335 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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