This is the offical port of Sun's Java Development Kit for FreeBSD. No known significant bugs exist at this time, but there are no guarantees of usability. However, many commercial companies rely on this port, so it should be safe to use.

We currently have support for 2.2.x, 3.x, 4.x and 5-CURRENT FreeBSD Systems for JDK 1.1.8. Anything prior to FreeBSD 2.2 (such as FreeBSD 2.1.7.1) is not supported.

Newsflash! The FreeBSD Foundation has secured a license from Sun Microsystems to distribute a native FreeBSD version of both the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Thanks to the great efforts of the FreeBSD Java team, these should be available for inclusion with a future release of FreeBSD. See Newsflash page for details.