Stale Java

[Peter Gordon]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 21:25 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> FC5t1 has Java 1.4 but some software requires 1.5.
> Will this be brought up to date soon?

Fedora's implementation is the Free Java stack (libGCJ, Eclipse
compiler, GNU Classpath, etc.), which at the moment only has about 97%
of JDK 1.4 implemented[1]. Work on finishing that is progressing nicely,
and about 88% of JDK 1.5 is implemented as well[2] (mainly the stuff
from JDK 1.4). So, it seems that (at the moment) you need to use Sun's
proprietary Java stack if you really need Java 1.5-specific
capabilities.

[1] http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-jdk14-classpath.html
[2] http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-jdk15-classpath.html
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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