java on FC5?

Andy Burns fedora at adslpipe.co.uk
Sun Apr 9 12:21:18 UTC 2006


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   is the OSS java environment that comes with FC5 a reasonably
> complete alternative to the sun's release?  thanks.

while gcj/gij is impressive and getting better all the time, it is not 
yet a general "drop-in" replacement for sun's jvm, there is no (secure) 
browser plugin, some software uses non-standard classes which it doesn't 
supply, there are some bugs.

If it's one or two packages you want to use, try it now you might be 
surprised, if you're after a general replacement, try back later ...




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