Timothy Murphy wrote:
Thanks for this pointer. As far as I can see, IcedTea/OpenJDK is not yet ready for general use (though there is an IcedTea Fedora-7 RPM).
OpenJDK (https://openjdk.dev.java.net/) is Sun Java under the GPL + Classpath exception. Iced Tea (http://icedtea.classpath.org/) is a Red Hat effort to bootstrap OpenJDK using only Free and open source software since OpenJDK still has some proprietary components (http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#h4_1)
So it seems the choice is between Fedora's Java Development packages and Sun's standard Java, which I assume Fedora dislikes for licence reasons.
Correct. Also GCJ and classpath has been ported to more architectures than OpenJDK and is capable of compiling to native executable code.
Rahul
