On 2/3/06, Stanton Finley <stanfinley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:56 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > > Hello! > > > > After I installed the JAVA JRE as followed from Installation Notes of > > FC4. But following messages displayed for JRE which displayed only the > > 1.4.2 is best but I am tested ok in sun.com which displayed 1.5-06. > > Did I missed some setting ? Or any affect on using java programs ? > > > > Thank you. > > > > Wong Kwok Hon > > > > = quote started = > > [root@ringofc3 ~]# alternatives --config java > > > > There are 2 programs which provide 'java'. > > > > Selection Command > > ----------------------------------------------- > > * 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java > > + 2 /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin/java > > > > Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 2 > > > > [root@xxx ~]# alternatives --display java > > java - status is manual. > > link currently points to /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin/java > > /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java - priority 1420 > > slave rmiregistry: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/rmiregistry > > slave jre_exports: /usr/lib/jvm-exports/jre-1.4.2-gcj > > slave jre: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj > > /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin/java - priority 2 > > slave rmiregistry: (null) > > slave jre_exports: (null) > > slave jre: (null) > > Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java. > > > > = quote ended = > > > This message probably means that because the jre-1.4.2-gcj is the open > source implementation of Java that is included by default with your > Fedora Core installation it is "best" (in the sense that it is free and > open source and not proprietary or otherwise encumbered). However many > people, including myself, need the proprietary Sun Java to do what we > need to do with Java. > > Stanton Finley > http://stanton-finley.net/ So would it affect the Java application running in Java 1.5 ? Would the application choose 1.5 not the 1.4.2 ? Wong Kwok Hon
