Fedora and JPackage proprietary JDK shims

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 2 20:23:28 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
>> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>>  I can say that OpenNMS won't currently work with a 1.6 version 
>>> because it's
>>> developers have said so.
>>
>> So what you're really saying is Fedora doesn't support Java < 6 very
>> well. 
> 
> Yes, as in what pretty much all existing large projects use.  I actually 
> haven't investigated this much beyond OpenNMS and would be happy to hear 
> otherwise about opengrok, alfresco, openfire, spark etc.

Most of them do. Opengrok is in the Fedora repository. Alfresco claims 
to support Java 1.5 and above. I am sure you can do your own research 
for the apps you really need.

Rahul




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