On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Kam Leo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:22:32 -0500 (EST), Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Mark Haney wrote:
The best source for Java for FC is jpackage.org. A bit of a learning curve, but it generally works much better than the Sun RPMs.
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Does the jpackage version work with Firefox in FC3?
The jpackage Java RPMs require that you grab the Sun (or other) compiler as a tarball and the jpackage nosource RPM, then build the RPMs yourself. The instructions are on the jpackage.org site.
I'm using (slightly older, slightly modified) jpackage Sun RPMs with Sun's 1.5.0_01 source, and they are working fine.
Sun offers a Linux rpm package for the latest version of the JRE, 1.5.0 Update 2. There is no need to compile the source unless you want the source for another purpose. Just go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp, click on the "Download JRE 5.0 Update 2" link., agree to the license agreement, and download the JRE, Netbeans or the source. It's your choice.
The difference isn't whether you get an RPM or source. You don't get source for the JDK either way. The difference is that the Sun RPMs are way out of date and not very well integrated with Fedora.
If all you want is the JRE, it shouldn't make much difference, except that you have to symlink to the plugin from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins yourself. If you are doing anything more serious with Java, the JPackage RPMs are designed to integrate well with Fedora and with a number of other Java tools that JPackage has built. You can also have multiple Javas installed and they play nicely with each other. The disadvantage is that you have to get the JDK itself from Sun (because of redistribution restrictions) and build the RPMs yourself. It's not hard, if you've ever built an RPM before.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
