any reason to use Sun's Java?

[Marc]

That's good to know that Sun is going to do that.  Looks like they are
responding to pressure and/or market forces that have been complaining about
how hard it is to work with so many versions and workarounds.

I set up an IDS system a couple years ago and the java on RHEL 3 was hard to
deal with. Seems that to satisfy the official redhat support you have to use
their java, but to actually get the app set up correctly with all the right
links, etc. you have to use the 'third party' (aka unsupported) java.  I
call it, 'vendor hell', trying to meet all the vendor req's.  Other than
java, I haven't run into the problem on a Linux platform however.


Marc





On 10/29/06, Kim Lux <lux at diesel-research.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 20:02 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> > On 10/29/06, Globe Trotter < hidden > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was planning on, switching completely to the opensource java that
> comes with
> > > FC6. Is there anything that I will be missing?
> > >
> > > My status wrt java is that i am an end-user. I don't develop java
> applications.
> > > I do run whatever someone else makes up....
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
>
> I develop in Java and I have Sun's jre 1.5 installed on my Linux
> workstation.  I know that RH's Java is supposed to be identical
> functionally, but it wasn't the last time I tried it, at least with the
> Eclipse application.
>
> When I develop Java stuff, I test with jre1.5, not the RH version.
> Nothing against the RH version and I applaud their efforts, but the
> standard is the sun version because that is what people on Windows
> computers will run.  The RH JRE might work fine, but then again a subtle
> difference may cause issues.
>
> You might also be interested to know that Sun has announced that they
> will be open sourcing their Java in the near future.  I think that will
> pretty much seal the deal that Sun's JRE will be the industry
> standard.
>
> --
> Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.
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