FreeBSD Java® Project: JDK® 1.5
March 5, 2009: Greg Lewis has released the ninth patchset (patchlevel 9, "Siegfried") for the JDK® 1.5.0 software. The major change in this patchset is to move the patchset base source code to 1.5.0 Update 16. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html.
February 14, 2008: Greg Lewis has released the eighth patchset (patchlevel 8, "Tarragindi") for the JDK® 1.5.0 software. This release now supports NetBSD/amd64 and the browser plugin runs on the amd64 architecture. In addition, the source code base has been updated to 1.5.0 Update 14. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html.
October 23, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the seventh patchset (patchlevel 7, "South China") for the JDK® 1.5.0 software. The major change in this patchset is to move the patchset base source code to 1.5.0 Update 13. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html.
July 26, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the sixth patchset (patchlevel 6, "Tigris") for the JDK® 1.5.0 software. The major change in this patchset is to move the patchset base source code to 1.5.0 Update 12. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html.
June 8, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the fifth patchset (patchlevel 5, "Tantanoola") for the JDK® 1.5.0 software. The marks a major update in the base JDK® source code since the patchset is now based on the JRL licensed 1.5.0 Update 11 source code rather than the earlier 1.5.0 SCSL licensed code base. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html.
January 24, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the fourth patchset (patchlevel 4, "Sumatran") for the JDK® 1.5.0 software. This release builds with GCC 4 and includes a number of bug fixes. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html.
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.