Java problem

[Les Mikesell]

Craig White wrote:
>>
>> And you didn't answer my question either.  Does the thing fedora 
>> executes under the name "java" pass the compatibility tests?
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> Isn't that a straw man argument? If gcj version executes all of the java
> needs of the packages that Fedora offers, isn't that enough?

No, it damages the credibility of java for everyone if a java runtime 
won't execute a java package correctly, yet is still executed as "java".

> I haven't run OpenNMS but I note their recommendation for 1.5.x which is
> starting to age now. 

It has had updates fairly recently. I don't think it is worn out or broken.

> I have Alfresco running and I don't know that it
> does/doesn't work with gcj version because I just simply installed the
> Sun version but Tomcat works with the gcj version so it wouldn't be too
> much of a stretch to think that it would work with Alfresco too.

Do you have time to find out?  I don't know what is missing in gcj. 
OpenNMS used to need a working jni interface to be able to build icmp 
packets and to link to rrd libraries if you use them (there is now a 
pure java jrobin replacement).

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   Les Mikesell
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