freebsd announce - Jul 2006 - The FreeBSD Foundation releases Java binaries for FreeBSD 5.5, 6.1, and the AMD64 platform.

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the release of  certified 
Java Runtime Environment  (JRE) and Java Development Kit (JDK) binaries 
for the FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1 operating systems.  For this release we 
added support for the AMD64 architecture. Built on the latest J2SE 5.0 
Update 7  release from Sun Microsystems, this new distribution delivers 
on the FreeBSD Foundation's promise to make FreeBSD a robust platform  
for the development and deployment of Java applications.

Please read the press release at: 
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20060705-PRrelease.shtml

For more information go to 
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml

Thank You,

Deb Goodkin
The FreeBSD Foundation