On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:44 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > For another take on this... > > > > Often I will install many different JVM's just so I can have the option > > to use the one that works best for the situation. I install them > > in /opt when I can and then use a collection of simlinks to pick and > > choose the JVM I want to use. > > Doesn't that sort-of assume that you are the only user and doing > only one thing at once on this multi-user, multi-tasking OS (i.e. not > a reasonable assumption for everyone)? True. This kind of setup is for desktop systems and not for servers. Still, it could be adapted for a server environment by having the developers make symlinks to their JDK within, say, $HOME/bin, and leaving one default version for systemwide usage. As I said, just another of the infinite possibilities available. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk
