This is the official port of Sun's &java; Development Kit for FreeBSD. No known significant bugs exist at this time, but there are no guarantees of usability. However, many commercial companies rely on this port, so it should be safe to use.
The FreeBSD Foundation has negotiated a license with Sun Microsystems to distribute FreeBSD binaries for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE™) and Java Development Kit (&jdk;).
The current release of the JDK and JRE available via the FreeBSD Foundation is 1.3.1. These binaries have been tested and certified to run with FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, but may also work on other 4.X releases. These binaries are not intended for use with FreeBSD 5.X, due to a binary compatibility issue the FreeBSD Foundation is working with the FreeBSD release engineering team to resolve.
For further information about downloading the JDK and JRE binaries for FreeBSD, please see the FreeBSD Foundation Java Downloads page.
The Java and Jakarta Tomcat article is a useful guide in helping users setup the &jdk; and the JRE™ on FreeBSD. It also includes a small section on installing Jakarta Tomcat from the Apache Software Foundation.