[nycbug-talk] Tomcat + JDK 1.4 on FreeBSD

[Kurt Miller]

From: "Fred McCann" <booleanman at mac.com>
> I would like to run tomcat in production on FreeBSD and I'm currently 
> trying to weigh that vs. running it on some distribution of linux. Is 
> anyone on the list currently using java on FreeBSD? If so what are you 
> seeing for performance and how are you running java? Is it one of the 
> linux 1.4 jdks running in linux compatibility mode? Is anyone running 
> the native BSD port?
> 
> I tried installing the native port last night, but I couldn't get it to 
> take. It was requesting the linux jdk from sun:
> 
> j2sdk-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin
> 
> Unfortunately the only version I could find on the sun site is:
> 
> j2sdk-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.bin
> 
> Which stopped me dead (until I figure away around it).
> 

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/

is where to find older releases. That should get you going again.

-Kurt