Re: basics

> If java is not part of openbsd can openbsd still view the scripts
> that java would normally see ie. openbsd doesnt have a issue trying to view
> scrips, if so how do you go around this?
I think you may be confusing Java and JavaScript. Java is a compiled 
programming
language, whose use in web pages has in past(*) been limited to the 
rather unsuccessful applet
technology (but which is also used extensively by many large enterprise 
web sites,
in the same problem space as PHP, Rails, etc.) and yet again as a 
somewhat limited
desktop programming language.

Java*Script* is a scripting language that is used in the majority of web 
pages today,
and is built into all modern browsers, including those on OpenBSD. The 
result is
that our lack of Java on non-i386/amd64 machines is really unlikely to cause
anybody very much grief.

(*) Sun, the owners of the Java language, are trying to stage a "Java 
Desktop" comeback
with Java WebStart and with JavaFX graphics, which has only been 
launched recently.
And, it works nicely with the Java 1.6 that we have in ports and packages.