Install OpneJDK7 on FreeBSD

FreeBSD deals many kind of JDKs. But, at the time of writing this article, OpenJDK7 is the only one that are ready for Java7. So that I introduce the way to install OpneJDK7 on FreeBSD.

Edit /etc/make.conf for OpenJDK7

Add these definitions to /etc/make.conf:

JAVA_VENDOR=openjdk
JAVA_VERSION=1.7
BOOTSTRAPJDKDIR=/usr/local/openjdk7
JAVA_PREFERRED_PORTS=JAVA_PORT_NATIVE_OPENJDK_JDK_1_7

Install via packages (mandatory)

# pkg_add -r openjdk7

That's all. Let's check the output of java -version command.

Install via ports (option)

If we want to install openjdk7 via ports, however, we must prepare for another JDK to be installed. In this article, I suggest to install openjdk7 via packages(above) at first, then install openjdk7 via ports.

# pkg_add -r openjdk7
# cd /usr/ports/java/openjdk7
# make install clean
# pkgdb -F

Let's check again java -version command.