On 07/26/2010 11:33 AM, Joerg Bergmann wrote: > Am 26.07.2010 11:41, schrieb Andrew Haley: >> On 07/25/2010 05:43 AM, Bob Hartung wrote: >> >>> I have loaded Fedora13 without a hitch and am impressed by the >>> improvements! >>> >>> However, I am just now beginning Java programming and I am wondering >>> if there is any substantial difference between java-1.6.0-openjdk and >>> the sun jdk. >> >> They are based on the same source code and both conform to the same >> language specification. For almost all purposes you won't see any >> difference. >> > I cannot confirm that. In real live, with Java apps not developed > for OpenJava, 50% of the "large" applets as developed using Sun > JDK fail with OpenJava. That's really a very different use case: the web browser plugin, while important, isn't part of the Java SE platform, and is not very likely to affect anyone who wants to learn the Java language. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines