Fw: JDK 1.1 port and MS Java

[William Cai]

The email is sent on behalf of David.

Thanks, William

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: David P. Caldwell <inonit at inonit.com>
To: william.cai at yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 3:57:35 AM
Subject: JDK 1.1 port and MS Java

Hi, William.  I tried to post the below to freebsd-java but for some 
reason am having problems.  (I am subscribed to the list.)  In any case, 
feel free to re-post on my behalf if it seems useful.

-- David.

>
> > More than a month ago, JDK ports related to Java 1.1 and 1.2 were marked
> > DEPRECATED and scheduled for removal. This period has come to an end,
> > and it is now time that we remove the support for these ports in
> > bsd.java.mk before we delete the JDK ports themselves.
>
> I just noticed that java/jdk11 is scheduled for removal, so sorry for 
> the late comment.
>
> I would like to add one use case for this port:  compiling code that 
> will run on the version of Java shipped with every vanilla Microsoft OS 
> since Windows 98 (aka. "the Microsoft Virtual Machine").  Its been a 
> number of years (2003) since I needed this (getting an Java SSH applet 
> that will work in any cybercafe on the planet). but java/jdk11 was 
> really the only environment where I had a chance of producing code that 
> seemed to work reliably.
>
> Maybe I never will need to do this kind of work again, but I just wanted 
> to mention how this port could potentially be useful outside of internal 
> FreeBSD ports dependencies.
>   
I believe you can do this with newer JDKs by using the -bootclasspath
command-line switch and pointing it toward the JDK 1.1 version of
classes.zip.  So I'm not sure maintaining the port is necessary --
although someone doing this would need a copy of a JDK 1.1 classes.zip.

But anyway, do newer Windows PCs ship with Microsoft's JVM?  I'm pretty
sure they don't.

-- David.