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Piecing together free java

Posted Nov 21, 2007 14:25 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
Parent article: Piecing together free java

This meta-package in Debian/ubuntu looks intriguing.....

free-java-sdk - Complete Java SDK environment consisting of free Java tools

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Posted Nov 22, 2007 20:06 UTC (Thu) by robilad (guest, #27163) [Link]

Almost ... it's jikes based, and jikes seems dormant at the moment, so it doesn't actually
support the Java language constructs introduced a few years ago, that are necessary, for
example, for bootstrapping GNU Classpath these days.