FreeBSD Java™ Project: JDK™ 1.5

April 7, 2006: Greg Lewis has released the third patchset (patchlevel 3, "Siberian") for the JDK™ 1.5.0 software. This release should be suitable for most applications, as most of the changes since the last patchset are changes which were backported from the binary release source base to make it JCK compliant. In addition, Java Web Start now works and a problem with the zlib library which caused Eclipse to crash has been fixed. However, use in a production environment is at your own risk, as always. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html.

September 3, 2005: Greg Lewis has released the second patchset (patchlevel 2, "Tasmanian") for the JDK™ 1.5.0 software. This patchset is considered a beta release as it is now stable on FreeBSD 4.x and has support for Java Web Start and the Java browser plugin (Mozilla and Firefox). Support for recent releases of FreeBSD on both the i386 and amd64 architectures is provided. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html.

April 7, 2005: The java/jdk15 port has been updated so that it builds on FreeBSD 4.11/i386. Unfortunately there are still serious run time issues on this platform.

January 19, 2005: Greg Lewis has released the first patchset (patchlevel 1, "Sabretooth") for the JDK™ 1.5.0 software. This initial patchset is only suitable for early testers and developers. Support for the following versions of FreeBSD is included -- i386/5.3 and amd64/5.3. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html.