If the software will run on JDK 1.1, use the NetBSD native port of the
Sun JDK:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/java/i386/1.1.8/jdk1.1.8-rc1.tgz


Steven Grunza wrote:
> 
> I've been told that a software package I would like to run requires a Java
> run time environment since they've changed the user interface from X11 to
> Java.  I haven't intentionally done anything with java before so...
> 
> What's the best/better (stabile, conforms to standards, etc) Java run time
> to use?  I'm using NetBSD 1.4.2_ALPHA on port-i386.  I've heard of Japhar
> and Kaffe so far.
> 
> Steven Grunza
> steven_grunza@ieee.org