Karel Kulhavy wrote: > I appreciate there is no Java in OpenBSD. I searched for java, jre, jdk, > j2se, sun, blackdown and ibm in the packages and didn't find anything.
/usr/ports/devel/jdk subpackages are 1.3-linux (requires linux emulation; this one is needed to boot strap the others), 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5. Flavors do include "native_bootstrap", but to be honest I have no idea what that does because building that flavor still required 1.3-linux. Building it is something of a pain because Sun won't let 3rd parties like the ports system fetch the files. You have to grab the Linux binary, then the SCSL source, then a patchset for it (whose maintainer, apparently, also doesn't let 3rd parties fetch it), then the SCSL binaries, all of which involve separate license agreements *and* an account on Sun's website whose password I can never seem to remember. And you have to grab the correct version of the binaries, sources, and patchsets, which are not at this moment the latest versions of them. This, incidentally, is why non-free software is a PITA. At any rate, it works fine for me; applets run in the native mozilla, aqua data studio runs great, etc. So, yes, unfortunately, OpenBSD can run horribly-written, slow, and buggy Java applications like any other OS. I guess file a bug report to have it removed... Weldon
