Java in Ubuntu !!!

[paul cooke]

On Monday 29 August 2005 03:06, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> I just happened to be needing to test a program I have been pointed to.
> I go to the project's website and oh horror, the program is implemented
> as a java "JAR" file, no Java on Ubuntu, not free, and a pain to
> install, it will never work I give up right now.
> It says that in order to run the program you need to type at the command
> line : "java -jar <prog-name> <options...>
>
> I did that just for the sake of it, and OH-MY-GOD-IT-WORKED !!! :-OOOO
>
> I nearly fell off my chair !
> I couldn't believe it, Ubuntu now has JAVA !

NO IT DOESN'T... at some point in the past, you installed it... you just 
forgot about it, that's all

Ubuntu will never have Java out of the box unless Sun get their act together 
and relax the license conditions about redistribution.