Working with Java Applications
For a full-featured web experience, and in order to use many cross-platform applications, you’ll likely want to install Java. This “virtual machine” programming environment created by and licensed from Sun Microsystems is distributed free of charge through the FreeBSD Foundation website (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml) and can be installed using the pkg_add command after downloading each appropriate file, as follows:
# pkg_add diablo-jdk-freebsd6-1.5.0.06.00.tbz # pkg_add diablo-jre-freebsd6-1.5.0.06.00.tbz
The FreeBSD ports collection includes a whole java category full of applications and programming utilities that you can use within the Java environment that results from this installation, ...
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