Fedora and Java - just give us the facts

[Timothy Murphy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>> (3) The Fedora documentation,
>> eg <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaFAQ>,
>> seems to me slightly misleading in not mentioning Sun's Java at all.
> 
> Actually it does. It is called OpenJDK now which is planned to be
> included in the next release.

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).

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.

I think I'll go with Sun's Java, and move over to OpenJDK with Fedora-8.

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