On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 20:02 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On 10/29/06, Globe Trotter < hidden > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was planning on, switching completely to the opensource java that comes with > > FC6. Is there anything that I will be missing? > > > > My status wrt java is that i am an end-user. I don't develop java applications. > > I do run whatever someone else makes up.... > > > > Any suggestions? I develop in Java and I have Sun's jre 1.5 installed on my Linux workstation. I know that RH's Java is supposed to be identical functionally, but it wasn't the last time I tried it, at least with the Eclipse application. When I develop Java stuff, I test with jre1.5, not the RH version. Nothing against the RH version and I applaud their efforts, but the standard is the sun version because that is what people on Windows computers will run. The RH JRE might work fine, but then again a subtle difference may cause issues. You might also be interested to know that Sun has announced that they will be open sourcing their Java in the near future. I think that will pretty much seal the deal that Sun's JRE will be the industry standard. -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
