Java debugging

[Les Mikesell]

Andrew Overholt wrote:
> 
>>>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>  I take your point.  Does simply rebuilding that RPM fix this problem?
>>>> Rebuilding that RPM fails:
>>>>
>>>>     [javac] /home/jamesjer/rpmbuild/BUILD/axis-1_2_1/src/org/apache/axis/i18n/ProjectResourceBundle.java:363:
>>>> clearCache() in org.apache.axis.i18n.ProjectResourceBundle cannot
>>>> override clearCache() in java.util.ResourceBundle; overridden method
>>>> is static final
>>>>     [javac]     public static void clearCache()
>>>>     [javac]                        ^
>>> Oh, great.  :-(
>>>
>>> That's an incompatible change from Java 1.5 to 1.6.
>>>
>>> Java 1.6 has a final method clearCache(), 1.5 doesn't:
>>>
>>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html
>>> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html
>> So someone has noticed that shipping a 1.6'ish JVM isn't necessarily 
>> going to work for everyone who needs to run current java applications?
> 
> Since OpenJDK is >= 1.6 (ignoring gcj and other GNU Classpath-based
> JVMs), I'm not sure if there's a better solution.  Is there?

The obvious solution is to ship a jpackage nosrc style rpm for the Sun 
Java versions that you are unwilling to include.  That would fix up the 
fedora rpm dependencies and alternatives symlink weirdness that make 
using your own downloaded binary painful otherwise.  Or maybe someone 
can get the jpackage people to document which of their packages will 
work for recent fedora versions.

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    Les Mikesell
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