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+ @FreeBSD.org
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We would like to have FreeBSD known as the stable Java platform. +

We would like to have FreeBSD known as the stable &java; platform.

Request for Enhancement to Sun:
We have petitioned Sun to provide an official FreeBSD port. We are currently in 2nd place in the vote count. If you are a member of the Java Develop er's Connection (it's free), you can vote for it as well http://developer.java.sun .com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html

Petition IBM for a port to FreeBSD:
In October, 1999, IBM released a new version of their IBM Developer Kit for Linux. We would like to see them release one for FreeBSD. If anyone has a point of contact in IBM that could spearhead this petition, please let Patrick Gardella know.

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JDK 1.0.x

+

&jdk; 1.0.x

Although it is noted below, this distribution is no longer found on freefall.FreeBSD.org. If you can find this port, feel free to use it. :) 

 Announcement
 ------------
 A native FreeBSD binary distribution of the JDK 1.0.2 is now available from
   freefall.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.tar.gz
 This port contains the java interpreter, compiler, and appletviewer.
 This is a completely unsupported distribution.
 
 Installation
 ------------
 1. Grab freefall.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.tar.gz.
 2. Create a directory and untar the FreeBSD distribution in there.
 3. Install the pdksh port.
 
 Running the JDK
 ---------------
 If your JDK directory is rooted at <jdk>, you need to set
   1. your path to include the <jdk>/bin directory
   2. CLASSPATH environment variable to .:<jdk>/classes
   3. LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include <jdk>/lib/i386
 To compile a java program, invoke 'javac program.java'.
 To run it, use 'java <name of main class>'.
 
 Answers to Common Questions
 ---------------------------
 Q: Do I need Motif?
 A: No.
 
 Q: Which version of FreeBSD does this work on?
 A: I run the current version of FreeBSD, so that's the only version which
    I've verified.     /*"FreeBSD-current?" -comment added by Dave Hummel, not
                                    original author */
 
 Q: It doesn't work on my machine.  What do I do?
 A: You are out of luck.  This is a completely unsupported distribution.
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The latest version is jdk1.1.8_ELF.V1999-11-9.tar.gz. for ELF (FreeBSD versions 3 or 4) or for older 2.2 releases you can grab jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V1099-11-9.tar.gz. Patches which were used to build both releases are available here. These are only useful if you have the actual Java source code. -

In addition, the appropriate internationalized JRE releases are +

In addition, the appropriate internationalized JRE™ releases are also available.

You might trying getting it from a site that is a bit closer to you, or you might be http impaired. Try to get it from one of these mirrors.:

These releases do not require a Motif license as they are compiled against a Motif library which allows public distribution of the JDK libraries and binaries.

README.FreeBSD:

 JDK1.1.8 for FreeBSD
 --------------------
 Fixed in this release:
 - Printing from the JDK should now work reliably.
 - Updated to now use the assembly version of the interpreter.  Performance
   should be increased.
 - Better handling of signals like DIVIDE and SIGFPE which are trapped and
   handled correctly now.
 - The ELF version should work better with AWT/Swing applications.  The
   FreeBSD project donated a more modern copy of Motif that should avoid
   some weird X errors that occurred previously.
 
 For best results, we suggest you run the most recent releases of FreeBSD,
 which are 2.2.8 for the a.out releases, and FreeBSD 3.2R, to take advantage
 of the fixes in those releases.
 
 If you find bug or have bug-fixes you'd like to see integrated, please send
 email to 'java-port@FreeBSD.org' so we can make future releases even better.
 
 Known Bugs/Limitations:
 ------------------------------------
 The number of sockets that can be used at any one time is hard-coded ahead
 of time (at this time, it's 2000).  This is not necessarily a limitation of
 the FreeBSD kernel, but coming up with a 'dynamic' scheme is non-trivial so
 none of the developers has written the code, and no-one else has
 provided any patches to the development team.  If this is important to you,
 we welcome any patches to provide a more 'dynamic' scheme that doesn't limit
 the number of file descriptors (sockets).
 ------------------------------------
 To make a distribution that works without X *and* with X, two binaries
 are provided. The first is linked without X, and is the standard binary.
  The second binary is linked against a static version of X, and against
 the shared X libraries.  The version used is controlled by the setting
 of the DISPLAY environment variable, which is used by X to determine
 where to send the output.
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September 18, 2002: Greg Lewis has released a new patchset for -JDK 1.2.2. +&jdk; 1.2.2.

Of most interest to FreeBSD users is the inclusion of JPDA support. The other significant changes are support for both NetBSD and OpenBSD.

As previously stated, the patchset is available from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk.html, although FreeBSD users are encouraged to use the port in ports/java/jdk12.

October 14, 2000: Greg Lewis' native FreeBSD JDK 1.2.2 is now in beta test stage and is now available in the ports directory (ports/java/jdk12-beta).
While this is only for i386 architecture at the moment, this will allow anyone running the i386 (most of you) the opportunity to build a native JDK2, and then test them out against your favorite apps and custom code. If you use something regularly, why not make a port of it? Instructions are available at Porters Handbook.

If you want to try to build it by hand, due to SCSL concerns, you now have to go to http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk.html and agree to the SCSL before downloading.

Note: This port will take a lot of hard drive space to build (around 250 MB).

May 3, 2000: Greg Lewis has just announced that the native FreeBSD JDK 1.2.2 port has entered alpha test stage.
In its current form, the port will build and run on most FreeBSD releases (3.4, 4.0 and 5.0 on x86) and work is being done on the others (2.2.8 on x86 and 4.0 alpha). Most demo applets and applications run.
Currently we are looking for enthusiasts who are willing to spend a little time testing the new port. While this is not a trivial task, there are clear step-by-step insturctions on how to build and use the port.
The patches may be found, as usual on:
http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk.html
More information, open issues and step-by-step instructions may be found at:
http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html

March 22, 2000: Greg Lewis releases the pre-alpha patches for enterprising Java users to build their own native FreeBSD JDK 1.2.2 from. This process is not for the faint of heart, and the resulting JDK is not for production systems. Having said that, most AWT and Swing demo's have been found to run. There is plenty of work to do, and we need all the testers we can find. Patches and build instructions may be downloaded from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk.html Current issues and test results may be found at http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html.

January 30, 2000: The Linux Blackdown Port Team has released RC4 of JDK 1.2 . It has been tested on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE and later and runs all demo applets and jfc demos. Several people have mentioned some problems running it with Apache JServ. Until it can be added to the FreeBSD port tree, it can be found at http://www.jmcm.org/tech/ports/linux_jdk.html. (Reported by Jose Marques)

October 11, 1999: Work has re-started on the Java2/JDK1.2 port. Expect an early 'alpha' release in the coming weeks for FreeBSD 3.3-stable/ELF boxes.

For most JDK2 development issues, you can use the JDK1 release and the Swing releases provided by Sun for JDK1, which works very well under FreeBSD.

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February 12, 2003: Greg -Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 8) for the JDK 1.3.1 +Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 8) for the &jdk; 1.3.1 software and updated the ports/java/jdk13 port accordingly. The updated patches may be found, as usual, at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html
This release is the first release for the JDK 1.3.1 software which has passed Sun's compatibility tests. It contains many fixes and improvements, so please upgrade before reporting a problem.

July 26, 2002: Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 7) for the JDK 1.3.1 software and updated the ports/java/jdk13 port accordingly. The updated patches may be found, as usual, at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html
This release contains many fixes and improvements, so please upgrade before reporting a problem.

February 13, 2002: Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 6) for the JDK 1.3.1 software and updated the ports/java/jdk13 port accordingly. The updated patches may be found, as usual, at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html
This release contains many fixes and improvements, so please upgrade before reporting a problem.

October 16, 2001: Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 5) for the JDK 1.3.1 software and updated the ports/java/jdk13 port accordingly. The updated patches may be found, as usual, at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html
This release contains many fixes and improvements, so please upgrade before reporting a problem.

September 10, 2001: Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 4) for the JDK 1.3.1 software and updated the ports/java/jdk13 port accordingly. The updated patches may be found, as usual, at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html
This release contains many fixes and improvements, so please upgrade before reporting a problem.

August 27, 2001: Greg Lewis has released a long-awaited port of the JDK 1.3.1 software. It can now be built from the ports directory ports/java/jdk13. It should be noted that all notes below apply and it is still very much a developer-only release and it is not recommended for use in production environment.

July 16, 2001: Greg Lewis releases patches for developers interested in building a native FreeBSD JDK 1.3.1. It should be noted that this is very much a developer only release and will not build a working JDK. The patches are primarily being released as an opportunity for interested people to be able to contribute to the porting effort without having to start from scratch. The patches and some cursory build instructions may be downloaded at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk13.html

September 15, 2000: Andrew Gallatin and Sean O'Connell have been working on getting IBM's JDK 1.3 working. To make them work on your system, you will have to patch some of your FreeBSD sources. They have provided patches based on your version:
4.0-RELEASE
4.0-STABLE
-CURRENT (pre-SMPng)

To quote Drew's message: 

 I've finally gotten the IBM jdk 1.3 working. I haven't tested it very
 heavily    AWT stuff seems to finally work though.
 
 Here's an updated patchset to a pre-SMPng -current. The patchset
 does the following:
 
 - changes MINSIGSTKSZ from 8192  to 2048
 - implements linux_rt_sendsig() & linux_rt_sigreturn()
 - implements userland sigtramp code for linux_rt_sigreturn()
 - implements linux_to_bsd_sigaltstack & bsd_to_linux_sigaltstack() to
         fix a bug in linux_sigaltstack & to avoid lots of cut-n-paste in
         linux_rt_sigreturn().  This also fixes the "Java HotSpot(TM)
         Client VM warning: cannot uninstall alt signal stack" one sees with
         Sun's 1.3 JDK.
 - changes the MAP_STACK flag to MAP_ANON for  LINUX_MAP_GROWSDOWN
         mmaps.  This was the final step in getting it working.  Any VM gurus
         out there want to talk about this one?  There's apparently
         something wrong with autogrowing linux thread stacks[*]
 
 Patches at: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/linux_sa_siginfo/diff
 
 [*]The "problem" is the heuristic used by vm_map_growstack() to
 determine whether the stack part of the main process stack.  We
 currently use:
 
         is_procstack = addr >= (vm_offset_t)vm->vm_maxsaddr;
 
 where vm->vm_maxsaddr comes from exec_new_vmspace():
         vmspace->vm_maxsaddr = (char *)USRSTACK - MAXSSIZ; 
 
 The IBM JDK's main thread reduces it's stack size to rlim_cur=2040*1024.
 It then creates stacks for its threads at addresses which are greater
 than vm_maxsaddr but less than the current bottom of the main process
 stack as defined by p->p_rlimit[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur. The first time
 a thread accesses something requiring this region to grow, it goes
 down in flames.

And Sean's email: 

 I did a Quick&Dirty MFC of Andrew Gallatin's work on getting the 
 IBM Java SDK to work.  I was able to run the appletviewer on one
 of the demos and it worked.  I cannot say much more than that.
 
 The patches are all relative to /usr/src (or / since they are
 all in sys )
 
 The majority of the patches are for files in /sys/i386/linux.
 You should be able to apply the patch; cd to /sys/modules/linux;
 type make; kldunload linux; type make install; and kldload linux
 
 There is an additional change which sets the MINSIGSTKSZ to 2048
 in sys/sys/signal.h .. this will require a kernel rebuild to
 take effect.

July 18, 2000: Ernst de Haan has done some work getting Sun's Linux JDK 1.3.0b9 to run on 4.0-STABLE. The .java_wrapper file can be found here. (Don't forget to rename it to .java_wrapper)

Ernst's email: 

 Just one more hint: Change the jre/lib/jvm.cfg and put the last line on
 top. So you will get:
 
    -classic
    -hotspot
    -server
 
 I _do_ get one warning, BTW, when running the Swing app:
 
    Warning: Cannot convert string "MetaCtrl<Key>Insert" to type VirtualBinding 
 
 Ernst
 
 
 Ernst de Haan wrote:
 > Hi folkz,
 > 
 > I have the Sun JDK 1.3.0 for Linux, beta 9 running on my FreeBSD
 > 4.0-STABLE system. Runs pretty nicely too.
 > 
 > java -version reports:
 > 
 >    bash-2.04$ java -version
 >    expr: syntax error
 >    java version "1.3.0beta_refresh"
 >    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0beta_refresh-b09)
 >    Classic VM (build 1.3.0beta_refresh-b09, green threads, nojit)
 > 
 > The first line with the syntax error is a small problem with
 > .java_wrapper, but it seems harmless. I had to make some modifications
 > to the .java_wrapper script to make it work on my system. I've attached
 > the version I use.
 > 
 > I haven't done much testing yet, but I have tried a single Swing
 > application. I did notice some differences in fonts, but it all seems to
 > work pretty nice and fast :)
 > 
 > Wow, soon FreeBSD will be the platform with the greatest number of
 > working JDKs on it, once we get WINE to work so we can run the Windows
 > JDKs too, and write an AS/400 emulator, and... and... ;-)
 > 
 > Ernst
 > 
 > P.S.  Thanks go to Victor Salaman how pointed me in the right direction.
 >       He has been running the Sun JDK 1.3 for Linux for quite a while.

January 29, 2000: Work has not begun on the JDK 1.3 port. It will not be until after our JDK 1.2 release is done that we will begin on JDK 1.3.

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March 7, 2003: Greg -Lewis has released the third patchset (patchlevel 3) for the JDK 1.4 +Lewis has released the third patchset (patchlevel 3) for the &jdk; 1.4 software. The code is now ready for general testing, although not all features have been implemented (e.g. plugin, NIO). This patchset is the result of a lot of hard work by Alexey Zelkin. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk14.html.

February 4, 2003: Greg Lewis has released the second patchset (patchlevel 2) for the JDK 1.4 software. Please keep in mind that this patchset is still for experienced testers and developers. This patchset is based on JDK 1.4.1 and is the result of a lot of hard work by Alexey Zelkin. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk14.html.

November 15, 2002: Greg Lewis has released an initial patchset (patchlevel 1) for the JDK 1.4.0 software. Keep in mind that it's an initial patchset, so it is supposed for developers (mostly). Patches may be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk14.html

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-This is the official port of Sun's Java Development Kit for FreeBSD. No known significant bugs exist at this time, but there are no guarantees of usability. However, many commercial companies rely on this port, so it should be safe to use. +This is the official port of Sun's &java; Development Kit for FreeBSD. No known significant bugs exist at this time, but there are no guarantees of usability. However, many commercial companies rely on this port, so it should be safe to use. Jump to Java

Supported

-

JDK 1.1.x

+

&jdk; 1.1.x

We currently have support for 2.2.x, 3.x and 4-CURRENT FreeBSD Systems for JDK 1.1.8. Included is support for both X and non-X systems as two separate binaries.

JDK 1.2.x

JDK2 (aka 1.2) support is forthcoming.

JDK 1.3.x

JDK 1.3 support is forthcoming (after JDK 1.2).

JDK 1.4.x

JDK 1.4 support is forthcoming (after JDK 1.3).

Unsupported

JDK 1.0.x

There is an old port of JDK 1.0.2 available. It is a.out, and will run on older FreeBSD systems (2.1.x and 2.2.x). This port is not supported

Anything prior to FreeBSD 2.2 (such as FreeBSD 2.1.7.1) is not supported in either JDK 1.1.8 or JDK 1.2.

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I want to:
...work on the port itself
...help testing
...report a bug
...write documentation

So you want to help, do you?

-

Working on the JDK port requires a firm grasp of C, the FreeBSD architecture, and a lot of time to spare. The changes that need to be made in the code have to do with how FreeBSD differs from Solaris, so if you don't know these, you will not go very far in the port. We have +

Working on the &jdk; port requires a firm grasp of C, the FreeBSD architecture, and a lot of time to spare. The changes that need to be made in the code have to do with how FreeBSD differs from Solaris™, so if you don't know these, you will not go very far in the port. We have had many people say they are willing to help, but when they see what is involved, they drop away.

Having been dutifully warned, here is what you need to do to get involved:

  1. Obtain a license from Sun for the source code
  2. Download the source code
  3. Use Patches Patches and build instructions may be downloaded from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsd-jdk122-patches-latest.tar.gz. Currently open issues and test results may be found at http://kjkoster.org/java/index.html

    AND/OR

  4. Obtain source code "diffs" Notify Nate Williams nate@yogotech.com that you have the license and arrange to gain access to the CVS tree.

    AND/OR

  5. Begin hacking on the sources Begin your porting. Jump right in and start digging.
  6. Let the world know you have finished it!

You want to help, but do not know C or FreeBSD that well?

The absolute best thing you can do is download the latest release, install it, and try all your favorite Java applications. If they don't work, see below.

I have a bug!

If you find an application that does not work, or crashes, here are the steps you should follow before reporting it:

  1. Try it again.
  2. Check your settings for this application. Check to see if you made a mistake in starting it up.
  3. Try it on a different platform. If you have access to a reference platform, try it there. (We need to determine if it is an application error, a Java bug, or a FreeBSD specific bug.)
  4. Narrow down the problem. If it is your own code, narrow down the bug to the offending code. Otherwise, determine the steps required to reproduce the problem.
  5. Notify the JDK porting team. Send email to freebsd-java@freebsd.org. Be sure to include the steps you have followed.
  6. Finally, and most importantly, be willing to work with the team to fix the problem.

I can help with the web site or documentation!

Everyone can help here. If you have a suggestion to add to the documentation, write it up and send it to freebsd-java@freebsd.org

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This is the official port of Sun's Java Development Kit for +

This is the official port of Sun's &java; Development Kit for FreeBSD. No known significant bugs exist at this time, but there are no guarantees of usability. However, many commercial companies rely on this port, so it should be safe to use.

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We currently have support for 2.2.x, 3.x, 4.x and 5-CURRENT FreeBSD - Systems for JDK 1.1.8. Anything prior to FreeBSD 2.2 (such as FreeBSD + Systems for &jdk; 1.1.8. Anything prior to FreeBSD 2.2 (such as FreeBSD 2.1.7.1) is not supported.

Newsflash! The FreeBSD Foundation has secured a license from Sun Microsystems to distribute a native FreeBSD version of both the - Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). + Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE™). Thanks to the great efforts of the FreeBSD Java team, these should be available for inclusion with a future release of FreeBSD. See Newsflash page for details.
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Installing FreeBSD's JDK is typically straightforward:

+

Installing FreeBSD's &jdk; is typically straightforward:

cd /usr/ports/java/jdk
make
make install
make clean

The JDK does not require any dependencies to install. However, if you wish to run any graphics, you will need to have X installed and running.

Many applications in Java need Java Foundation Classes (Swing) to run. JFC can be installed in: /usr/ports/java/jfc

If you should have trouble, you can see the FreeBSD Handbook section on "installing applications" for help.

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March, 2003

  • March 7, 2003:
    Greg Lewis has released the -third patchset (patchset 3) in the JDK 1.4 series. See the +third patchset (patchset 3) in the &jdk; 1.4 series. See the JDK 1.4.x page for more details.

February, 2003

  • February 12, 2003:
    Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 8) for the JDK 1.3.1 software. See the JDK 1.3.x page for more details.
  • February 4, 2003:
    Greg Lewis has released the second patchset (patchset 2) in the JDK 1.4 series. See the JDK 1.4.x page for more details.

November, 2002

  • November 15, 2002:
    Greg Lewis has released a first patchset (patchlevel 1) for the JDK 1.4.0 software. See the JDK 1.4.x page for more details.

September, 2002

  • September 18, 2002:
    Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 11) for the JDK 1.2.2 software. See the JDK 1.2.x page for more details.
  • September 17, 2002:
    Right after Sun released J2SE 1.4.1 FCS, the Linux version was made available in the FreeBSD Ports system. See J2SE 1.4.1 page for more details.

July, 2002

  • July 26, 2002:
    Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 7) for the JDK 1.3.1 software. See the JDK 1.3.x page for more details.

February, 2002

  • February 13, 2002:
    Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 6) for the JDK 1.3.1 software. See the JDK 1.3.x page for more details.

December, 2001

  • December 22, 2001:

    This was posted to announce@freebsd.org:

    The FreeBSD Foundation has secured a license from Sun Microsystems to distribute a native FreeBSD version of both the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Thanks to the great efforts of the FreeBSD Java team, these should be available for inclusion with the upcoming release of FreeBSD 4.5 in January, 2002.

    The general availability of a distributable version of Java will benefit end users, commercial users, and developers who use FreeBSD. Java continues to grow in popularity and has become heavily used in server side web applications, one of FreeBSD's core areas of strength. With an officially licensed binary Java distribution, FreeBSD becomes an ideal platform for execution, development, and deployment of Java based solutions.

    This agreement would not have been possible without the efforts of Nate Williams. Nate not only started the FreeBSD Java porting effort, but also brought Sun Microsystems and the Foundation together to negotiate a license.

    You can find full text of the announcement here.

October, 2001

  • October 16, 2001:
    Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 5) for the JDK 1.3.1 software. See the JDK 1.3.x page for more details.

September, 2001

  • September 10, 2001:
    Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset (patchlevel 4) for the JDK 1.3.1 software. See the JDK 1.3.x page for more details.
  • September 6, 2001:
    Maxim Sobolev has created a port of the Sun's Forte[tm] for Java[tm], release 3.0 Community Edition integrated development environment (IDE). It can now be built from the ports directory ports/java/forte.

    The port can be used either with native JDK 1.3.1, or with Linux JDK 1.3.1.

August, 2001

  • August 27, 2001:
    Greg Lewis has released a long-awaited port of the JDK 1.3.1 software. It can now be built from the ports directory ports/java/jdk13. See JDK 1.3.x for more details.

    It should be noted that this is very much a developer-only release and it is not recommended for use in production environment.

October, 2000

  • October 14, 2000:
    Maxim Sobolev has produced a port of the JDK 1.2.2 software. It can now be built from the ports directory ports/java/jdk12-beta. See JDK 1.2.x for more details.

    All the issues noted below are still in place, however.

    So anyone who has a Java2 port you've been waiting on submitting, now is your chance.

September, 2000

  • September 15, 2000: From the Java news desk:
    Sean O'Connell and Andrew Gallatin have created patches to enable FreeBSD to run IBM's JDK 1.3.
    Ernst de Haan has been able to get Sun's Linux JDK 1.3.0b9 running on 4.0-STABLE.

    Full details on both can be found here.

August, 2000

  • August 10, 2000: On August 7th, 2000, the FreeBSD JDK team was given access to Sun's JCK (Java Compatibility Kit), which will allow us to test and (hopefully!) release a binary version using the current set of patches. Unfortunately, we are unable (for legal reasons) to distribute a JDK that hasn't been run against the JCK like we were able to with the JDK1.1.* releases.

    Unfortunately, as told by Sun (we have no experience *yet*), running the JCK against the port is a difficult and time-consuming process. Hopefully it won't take us the 3 months that Sun expects it to take. :(

    Finally, there are still some issues regarding Motif that need to be resolved before a full public release can be made. Sun is working on that front, and we need to try contacting the OpenGroup to see if we can get a special exception for Motif binary distributions to use in the JDK release.

May, 2000

  • May 3, 2000: Native JDK 1.2.2 port enters alpha test phase
    Greg Lewis has just announced that the native FreeBSD JDK 1.2.2 port has entered alpha test stage.
    In its current form, the port will build and run on most FreeBSD releases (3.4, 4.0 and 5.0 on x86) and work is being done on the others (2.2.8 on x86 and 4.0 alpha). Most demo applets and applications run.
    Currently we are looking for enthusiasts who are willing to spend a little time testing the new port. While this is not a trivial task, there are clear step-by-step instructions on how to build and use the port.
    The patches may be found, as usual on:
    http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk.html
    More information, open issues and step-by-step instructions may be found at:
    http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html
  • May 1, 2000: Request for Enhancement - Now the number 1 RFE
    We have petitioned Sun to provide an official FreeBSD JDK2 port. We are currently in 1st place in the vote count. If you are a member of the Java Developer's Connection (it's free), you can vote for it as well http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html

March, 2000

  • March 22, 2000: Pre-Alpha JDK 1.2.2 patches available.
    Greg Lewis releases the pre-alpha patches for enterprising Java users to build their own native FreeBSD JDK 1.2.2 from. This process is not for the faint of heart, and the resulting JDK is not for production systems. Having said that, most AWT and Swing demo's have been found to run. There is plenty of work to do, and we need all the testers we can find. Patches and build instructions may be downloaded from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsd-jdk122-patches-latest.tar.gz. Currently open issues and test results may be found at http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html.

January, 2000

  • January 30, 2000: Blackdown 1.2.2RC4 JDK
    The Linux Blackdown Port Team has released RC4 of JDK 1.2. It has been tested on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE and later and runs all demo applets and jfc demos. Several people have mentioned some problems running it with Apache JServ. Until it can be added to the FreeBSD port tree, it can be found at http://www.jmcm.org/tech/ports/linux_jdk.html. (Reported by Jose Marques)

November, 1999

  • November 28, 1999:Request for Enhancement
    We have petitioned Sun to provide an official FreeBSD JDK2 port. We are currently in 2nd place in the vote count. If you are a member of the Java Developer's Connection (it's free), you can vote for it as well http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html
  • November 9, 1999:Another JDK1.1.8 release to fix a separate class of multicast bugs.

October, 1999

  • October 11, 1999: Work has re-started on the Java2/JDK1.2 port. Expect an early 'alpha' release in the coming weeks for FreeBSD 3.3-stable/ELF boxes.

September, 1999

  • September 22, 1999: Re-rolled the JDK1.1.8 yet again to fixup some minor bugs that people have found, as well as to speedup the JDK. For details checkout the README.FreeBSD supplied in the releases.
    • jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-9-22.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.
    • jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-9-22.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.* and 4.* which use the ELF binary format.

July, 1999

  • July 19, 1999: Re-rolled the JDK1.1.8 release to fix a couple of minor (but annoying bugs). First, the netpatch (see below) was incorporated into the build, and second an annoying Floating Point bug was found and fixed. The latter bug affected multi-threaded code that did floating point calculations and based on the code could produce completely bogus results.
    • jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-7-19.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.
    • jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-7-19.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.* and 4.* which use the ELF binary format.
  • July 2, 1999: Organization of FreeBSD 'CommAPI' porting team which is an effort to make JAVA's CommAPI freely available to the FreeBSD community. Project is coordinated by DRICOT Jean-Michel and will officially be maintained in http://student.ulb.ac.be/~jdricot/commapi/. Feel free to contact him if you want to join the project.

June, 1999

  • June 8, 1999: A small bug was found in the JDK1.1.8 release which affected people using UDP sockets. If you tried to send a packet to the broadcast address, the FreeBSD JDK refused with a permissions error. This error was fixed, and rather than re-releasing the entire release a small patchset was re-rolled for those folks who are experiencing this problem. If you experience this problem, feel free to download the gzipped tarfile and untar it wherever you installed the jdk. It will install itself over top of the old version. If you aren't experiencing the bug, there is no need to apply the patch, although it wouldn't hurt.
  • June 3, 1999: JDK1.1.8 for A.OUT and ELF releases. This release adds support for older 3.*/ELF releases (without requiring any runtime loader changes), as well as fixes bugs in LOCALE and timezone support for all FreeBSD releases.
    • jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-6-3.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.
    • jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-6-3.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.* and 4.* which use the ELF binary format.
  • June 1, 1999: JDK2 status
    • Work on JDK1.2/JDK2 has been going very slow as the development team has been focusing it's effort on solid JDK1 releases. For most JDK2 development issues, you can use the JDK1 release and the Swing releases provided by Sun for JDK1, which works very well under FreeBSD.

April, 1999

  • Apr. 16, 1999: New JDK1.1.7 A.OUT release. This fixes build problems in the March release. A new ELF release will be made to support older 3.0 releases as well sometime in the near future.
    • jdk1.1.7_AOUT.V99-4-16.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.

March, 1999

  • Mar. 26, 1999: ELF support for JDK1.1.7, as well as a new A.OUT release which includes minor bugfixes.
    • jdk1.1.7_AOUT.V99-3-24.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.
    • jdk1.1.7_ELF.V99-3-25.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.x and 4 which use the ELF binary format. Note: This requires changes made to the runtime loader to support dladdr() functionality made on 1999/3/24. You will need to be running 3.1-stable or 4.0-current dated later than 1999/3/24. If you don't have the new loader binary or are not tracking -stable or -current, you can download it from here and install it as /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 (you need to be root to do this): 
      # install -c -s -o bin -g bin -m 555 -C -fschg ld-elf.so.1 /usr/libexec
  • Mar. 16, 1999: Updates on current development:
    • ELF JDK1.1.7 : An ELF build of JDK1.1.7 (for use on FreeBSD 3.x and later) is currently entering it's initial internal testing phase. A beta release should be available in a few weeks.
    • JDK2 (aka JDK1.2): Several individuals are working on porting JDK2 to FreeBSD, but the work is progressing slowly. This is primarily due to a lack of developer time to work on this project. (The release of Blackdown's JDK2 port will assist our development when they release their source diffs.)

December, 1998

  • Dec. 21, 1998: jdk1.1.7.V98-12-21.tar.gz.
    • Bugfix version of JDK1.1.7. Thanks go to Keith White who tracked down a couple annoying (and serious) bugs in the JDK, notably the modulo bug. This release also has the 256 file-descriptor limit bumped up to 2048. The JRE should also be much more usable, again thanks to Keith.

November, 1998

  • Nov. 14, 1998: jdk1.1.7.V98-11-5.tar.gz.
    • Updated to JDK1.1.7. Thanks go to Patrick Gardella patrick@freebsd.org who provided most of the testing for this release.

September, 1998

  • Sept 23, 1998: jdk1.1.6.V98-9-23.tar.gz.
    • The August 14 build had jre incorrectly linked in both the JDK and the JRE, so a new release was rebuilt with the correct linkage. Otherwise, there were no changes from the older release.

August, 1998

  • Aug 22, 1998:
    • Updated page to list numerous sites who have agreed to mirror the JDK and provide ftp access. Thanks to all!
  • Aug 14, 1998: jdk1.1.6.V98-8-14.tar.gz.
    • The SO_REUSEADDR option is now correctly set on ServerSockets (may affect other sockets as well.)

July, 1998

  • July 21, 1998: jdk1.1.6.V98-7-21.tar.gz.
    • Updated port to JDK1.1.6. Thanks go to Keith White kwhite@site.uottawa.ca who did most of the work to make this release happen!
    • More standard 'naming' for java.version and such.
    • Fixes for UDP/Multicast sockets.
    • The signal abort error may be fixed (knock on wood).
    • Add support for the "KOI8-R" and "CP866" encodings.
    • Timezone's now work correctly under FreeBSD (this required some native code, but it is embedded in the JDK so shouldn't affect users. However, FreeBSD has one of the few (only?) VM's that correctly support Timezones now).
    • sysRmdir() now correctly removes directories.
    • Link in the xpg4 library to support CJK locales.

May, 1998

  • May 5, 1998:
    • Updated page to include instruction on how to get Sun's JWS (Java Work Shop) working under FreeBSD.

February, 1998

  • February 25, 1998: jdk1.1.5.V98-2-25.tar.gz.
    • JDK's built on 2.2.2 should now work again.
    • The AWT now correctly sets the Window name.
    • Fixed obscure bug that could cause a core dump if you hit a button in a dialog box multiple times.
    • Fixed bug where SHMEM wasn't released when using images, causing a leak.
    February 12, 1998:
    • Johan Larsson graciously provided an ftp mirror site for the JDK, so if you have an aversion to using HTTP, then feel free to grab it from his site.
    • Replaced the 'Steaming Cup of Java' logo with the 'Jump to Java' logo, which is more politically (and legally) acceptable to SUN's lawyers.
    February 9, 1998: jdk1.1.5.V98-2-8.tar.gz.
    • Fixed bugs in Process.waitFor()
    • Modified the way the Motif library was linked in. This will allow anyone with a Motif library (static or dynamic) to build their own JDK once the patchkit is released. If their Motif license allows for it, they can also make binary releases available.
    • Non blocking reads on PIPE did not work reliably on all versions of the OS.
    • Multicast now works.

January, 1998

  • January, 1998:
    • Organization of FreeBSD 'JDK' porting team, which now jointly creates new JDK releases for FreeBSD.
    • New JDK1.1.5 binary, which has Motif statically compiled in. (Unfortunately, this release was lost in a disk crash on the ftp server.)
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