Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:30:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Byrne <sbb@ecomcon.sbay.org>
To: java-linux@java.blackdown.org
Subject: Java 2 (JDK 1.2) pre-release for PowerPC now available!

Blackdown Java-Linux Porting Team member Kevin Hendricks posted the
announcement today about the availability of a pre-release version
of Java 2 (aka  JDK 1.2) for PPC Linux:

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Announcing Pre-Release version 1 of Sun's JDK 1.2 (Java 2) for
Linux on PowerPC from the Blackdown JDK porting team!


This is a *pre-release*  version of JDK 1.2

    - passed all non-interactive JCK tests for compiler, runtime-vm,
      and runtime lang (the remaining tests have not been run yet).

    - both green (very stable) and native threads (beta at best)

    - green threads is the default. to force either threads type
      use: java -green XXXXXX or java -native XXXXX

    - for glibc 1.99 (DR3, R4, R4.1) (No R5 glibc 2.1 version yet)

    - NO Metrowerks JIT (Just-in-Time) compiler is available *yet*
      (jit interface changed significantly from JDK 1.1.7 to JDK 1.2)

    - This port is statically linked with Motif 2.1.

    - This port was developed under a sepcial Sun's license
      agreement with Blackdown via Steve Byrne (Thank you Steve!)


Please note:

All of the development and testing was done using Paul Mackerras's
Linux-PMac 2.2.1 kernel with Gary Thomas's latest glibc 1.99 (1o)
installed over DR3/R4 user space.

The home website is still: 

http://business.tyler.wm.edu/mklinux

but Apple via Gilbert Coville has graciously provided a mirror site for all
of the files needed for the JDK to run on LinuxPPC / MkLinux

ftp://ftp.mklinux.apple.com/pub/contrib/JDK/

I hope you enjoy the numerous improvements available in JDK 1.2

Thanks,

Kevin Hendricks

...with a special thanks to the other Blackdown Porting Team members:
Steve Byrne, Juergen Kreileder, Johan Vos, Anand Palaniswamy,
David Connelly, Karl Asha, Kars de Jong, Scott Hutinger, Michael Sinz, and
Brad Crochet; and to Kevin Buettner for doing the initial JDK 1.1 porting
work to PowerPC.
 


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