FreeBSD Java® Project: JDK® 1.6
May 09, 2012: Greg Lewis updates the OpenJDK® 6 port to Build 25.
November 30, 2011: Jung-uk Kim updates the OpenJDK® 6 port to Build 24.
August 9, 2011: Jung-uk Kim updates the OpenJDK® 6 port to Build 23.
March 1, 2011: Jung-uk Kim updates the OpenJDK® 6 port to Build 22.
February 9, 2011: Jung-uk Kim updates the OpenJDK® 6 port to Build 21.
July 10, 2010: Greg Lewis updates the OpenJDK® 6 port to Build 20.
May 17, 2010: Lev A. Serebryakov's update to Build 19 of the OpenJDK® 6 port is committed.
January 16, 2010: Brian Gardner's update to Build 17 of the OpenJDK® 6 port is committed. This update adds support for building a 'fastdebug' version of OpenJDK® 6, updates the cacerts file and fixes font rendering.
May 5, 2009: Brian Gardner's update to Build 16 of the OpenJDK® 6 port is committed. This update also fixes a problem with the port using the HotSpot JVM from the bootstrap JDK rather building and installing it's version of HotSpot.
February 23, 2009: Brian Gardner's port of OpenJDK® 6 is committed to the FreeBSD Ports Collection.
February 6, 2009: Brian Gardner has announced a port of OpenJDK® 6 to FreeBSD 7.0. The patch can be found at http://beta.experts-exchange.com/articles/OS/Unix/BSD/Patch-for-OpenJDK6-on-BSD.html.
February 14, 2008: Greg Lewis has released the fourth patchset (patchlevel 4, "Mach 1") for the JDK® 1.6.0 software. This release now supports MacOS X Leopard and NetBSD/amd64. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk16.html.
November 15, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the third patchset (patchlevel 3, "Boss 302") for the JDK® 1.6.0 software. The main update in this patchset is to move the source code base to 1.6.0 Update 3. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk16.html.
October 28, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the second patchset (patchlevel 2, "Mestengo") for the JDK® 1.6.0 software. This release adds support for NetBSD/i386 and is the first version of the JDK to support the browser plugin on the amd64 architecture that I am aware of. In addition, the source code base has been updated to 1.6.0 Update 2. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk16.html.
August 2, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the first patchset (patchlevel 1, "Brumby") for the JDK® 1.6.0 software. This first release supports both FreeBSD and OpenBSD on the i386 and amd64 architectures. Information on downloading the patchset can be found at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk16.html.