Eclipse and Free Java

[Tommy Trussell]

On 8/24/05, Steve Torrefranca <javacide at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Is it possible to use Eclipse with a free JavaVM with Ubuntu Hoary?
> 
> sorry man I am just curious why you would prefer 3rd party javaVM?
> why not use sun-j2sdk1.5 that is in hoary?  

His original post had this link
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathShowcase

If that doesn't answer your question maybe we're talking about something else.

> what I do is apt-get
> sun-j2sdk1.5 and then download eclipse.gz from eclipse.

That works great if you're running on Intel and you don't mind the
license restrictions of Sun Java. If you're on PPC you're "SOL."