The Java Runtime Environment is the minimum standard Java Platform for running Java programs. It contains the Java virtual machine, Java core classes and supporting files. Executables are installed into /usr/local/jdk1.1.8/bin. You may want to put this into your PATH or symlink them to /usr/local/bin in case you don't have kaffe installed (which shared many of the binarie's names). You may want to build a kernel with options SYSVSEM For more information about the Java for FreeBSD see http://www.freebsd.org/java/ WWW: http://www.freebsd.org/java/