Java Environment (7.04)

[Lee Tambiah]

Hey I have written a Java guide on my Blog, here it is:-

http://www.ossgeeks.co.uk/?p=133

Regards

Lee Tambiah

On 8/1/07, Dick Dowdell <dick.dowdell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good info. Thanks.
>
> On 7/31/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Dick Dowdell wrote:
> >
> > > I'm fairly new to Ubuntu myself, but I'm a very old hand at Java
> > > development.  For some reason Kaffe is distributed with Ubuntu rather
> > than
> > > the Sun JDK/JRE.  I've not found it a good choice.
> > >
> > > Yop can download Sun's Java JDK1.6.0_02 from Sun (http://java.sun.com)
> > and
> > >
> > > On 7/31/07, jack <jdangler at terremark.com > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I have 7.04 running and came across this page which details building
> > a
> > >> java dev environment on ubuntu feisty...
> > >>
> > >> http://blogs.sun.com/coldrick/entry/java_development_on_ubuntu_part
> > >>
> > >> After d/l'ing the jdk, the author says to execute this as a normal
> > user
> > >> fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6u2-linux-i586.bin
> >
> > These are both very obsolete - just use the sun-java* packages from
> > multiverse.  No muss, no fuss.
> >
> > Kaffe isn't actually "distributed with Ubuntu", it's just that some apps
> > requiring Java will specify a preferential jre - like
> > "depends kaffe | java2-runtime", and if you don't have anything else
> > that
> > provides "java2-runtime" you'll get kaffe.  In my case, I got gcj -
> > which
> > is equally useless.  Usually, installing a late sun-java will allow you
> > to
> > remove kaffe or gcj or any other lesser java without removing the
> > packages
> > that caused them to be installed in the first place.
> > --
> > derek
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