Java on fc4

[Temlakos]

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