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Date:      Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:06:46 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   why use diablo JDK/JRE ?
Message-ID:  <19386.6310.331950.363182@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <z2wb10011eb1004050940hc78f2881z60ebfc5d020da21c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <z2wb10011eb1004050940hc78f2881z60ebfc5d020da21c@mail.gmail.com>

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Masoom Shaikh writes:

>  what is the need for FreeBSD Foundation to maintain dialbo JDK/JRE
>  binaries when packages for openjdk are available on ftp servers ?
>  
>  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/java/openjdk-7.0.86.tbz
>  
>  stupid me, never realized, just assumed that openjdk binaries cannot
>  be distributed
>  I always used to download diablo, then build openjdk :(
>  such a waste of time/effort

	As far as I know, openjdk does not provide browser plugins.
	If that's not a problem ....


				Robert Huff



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