Java on fc4

[Mlists]

Could you possibly send me a copy of your java rpms as the ones on the
sun site appear to be the ones causing all the trouble.

Thanks

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:56 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
> Mlists wrote:
> > Has anyone got java to work with either javaws or firefox on fc4 yet ?
> > 
> 
> Java, definitely yes. I used Michael Peters' "nosrc.rpm" packages, in a 
> "secure rpmbuild environment" (basically a user account dedicated to rpm 
> building), to build several rpm packages from Sun's binary 
> self-extracting source package. I then installed the JRE and J-SDK on my 
> system. I then installed a handy Java-based text editor--couldn't be 
> happier with it. And compiling with Java is so simple that I don't yet 
> see a need for an Integrated Development Environment. (If anyone can 
> tell me how to use Eclipse for that purpose, or show me where I can get 
> some tutorial and other help, please share.) I am now using the J-SDK to 
> develop a major Java application--or rather, "port" it from native C++ 
> and wxWidgets. Already I find Java, Swing, and JDBC to be /far/ more 
> powerful than their C++ equivalents.
> 
> But Java Web Start is a hopeless case. Every time I try to start 
> anything with Java Web Start, it just starts opening window after window 
> on Firefox until I forcibly stop it.
> 
> Java Web Start is /supposed/ to be installed with the JRE. But on my 
> system, using Firefox, it is not working. (Then again, I can't use 
> JavaWS on Windows XP SP2, either--I suspect that this is a security 
> issue, and therefore I'm not even sure that having JavaWS on your system 
> is very smart!)
> 
> Temlakos
>