Could you possibly send me a copy of your java rpms as the ones on the sun site appear to be the ones causing all the trouble. Thanks On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:56 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > 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 >
