Mlists wrote:
Has anyone got java to work with either javaws or firefox on fc4 yet ?
Java, definitely yes. I used Michael Peters' "nosrc.rpm" packages, in a "secure rpmbuild environment" (basically a user account dedicated to rpm building), to build several rpm packages from Sun's binary self-extracting source package. I then installed the JRE and J-SDK on my system. I then installed a handy Java-based text editor--couldn't be happier with it. And compiling with Java is so simple that I don't yet see a need for an Integrated Development Environment. (If anyone can tell me how to use Eclipse for that purpose, or show me where I can get some tutorial and other help, please share.) I am now using the J-SDK to develop a major Java application--or rather, "port" it from native C++ and wxWidgets. Already I find Java, Swing, and JDBC to be /far/ more powerful than their C++ equivalents.
But Java Web Start is a hopeless case. Every time I try to start anything with Java Web Start, it just starts opening window after window on Firefox until I forcibly stop it.
Java Web Start is /supposed/ to be installed with the JRE. But on my system, using Firefox, it is not working. (Then again, I can't use JavaWS on Windows XP SP2, either--I suspect that this is a security issue, and therefore I'm not even sure that having JavaWS on your system is very smart!)
Temlakos
