Fedora- redhat Linux

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Fri Mar 4 15:08:13 UTC 2005


* Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> [2005-02-23 20:26]:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Giulio Sorrentino wrote:
> 
> >For java fedora offers no support except command line compiler (gcc-java).
> >As already suggested the best IDE for java is eclipse.
> 
> While it's true that there is no built-in Java support, there is plenty 
> available.  The best resource for serious Java on Fedora is jpackage.org.

This is changing for FC4.  Rawhide has lots of new packages that java
developers will probably find interesting:

- java-1.4.2-gcj-compat{,-devel}  ("traditional" JVM/JDK environment with
  free tools)
- Java-GNOME bindings
- lots of ant packages
- Eclipse
- lots of Jakarta stuff
- and more ...

Andrew




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