There is now a native netbsd/i386 JDK1.1.5 port available.

It uses lesstif (we could not afford to license Motif for all the
platforms that netBSD runs on :-) but thanks to some help from the
lesstif team, seems to work very well.  Certainly all the Swing demos
in SwingSet seem to run ok.

I'm mentioning this here rather than port-i386, because I expect to
port to sparc possibly others.

Please see http://www.quick.com.au/java/

BTW whom do I need to speak to to get this up on netbsd.org?

--sjg