JDK confusion

[Michael A. Peters]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 07:39 -0500, Jim Cox wrote:

> 
> The tar.gz route is about as easy as it gets, and lets you keep
> multiple versions of the JDK on the box. I just expand install under
> /usr (e.g. /usr/jdk1.5.0_01) and symlink the /usr/java directory along
> with the main executables (/usr/bin/java, /usr/bin/javac, etc.).
> 

I recommend the jpackage.org route personally -

It involves a nosrc.rpm and the tarball - and it builds rpm's that
install and work nicely.