Will it cause Java problem in FC4

[Stanton Finley]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:56 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> After I installed the JAVA JRE as followed from Installation Notes of
> FC4. But following messages displayed for JRE which displayed only the
> 1.4.2 is  best but I am tested ok in sun.com which displayed 1.5-06.
> Did I missed some setting ? Or any affect on using java programs ?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Wong Kwok Hon
> 
> = quote started =
> [root at ringofc3 ~]# alternatives --config java
> 
> There are 2 programs which provide 'java'.
> 
>   Selection    Command
> -----------------------------------------------
> *  1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java
>  + 2           /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin/java
> 
> Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 2
> 
> [root at xxx ~]# alternatives --display java
> java - status is manual.
>  link currently points to /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin/java
> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java - priority 1420
>  slave rmiregistry: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/rmiregistry
>  slave jre_exports: /usr/lib/jvm-exports/jre-1.4.2-gcj
>  slave jre: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj
> /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin/java - priority 2
>  slave rmiregistry: (null)
>  slave jre_exports: (null)
>  slave jre: (null)
> Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java.
> 
> = quote ended =
> 
This message probably means that because the jre-1.4.2-gcj is the open
source implementation of Java that is included by default with your
Fedora Core installation it is "best" (in the sense that it is free and
open source and not proprietary or otherwise encumbered). However many
people, including myself, need the proprietary Sun Java to do what we
need to do with Java.

Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/