Press releases for freebsd

The FreeBSD Foundation Releases Java Binaries for FreeBSD 5.5, 6.1, and the AMD64 Platform (2006-07-12)
The FreeBSD Foundation announced the availability of certified Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Java Development Kit (JDK) binaries for the FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1 operating systems. 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.

The FreeBSD Foundation Announces Java JDK and JRE 1.5 Binaries for FreeBSD (2006-04-07)
Today, the FreeBSD Foundation announced the availability of the official Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Java Development Kit (JDK) for FreeBSD. The Foundation negotiated a license with Sun Microsystems to distribute these FreeBSD binaries. The binaries are based on JDK 1.5 and work with the official FreeBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 6.0 releases on the i386 platform.