Java and openjdk

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 29 13:18:36 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:

> I expected more from the conformance test. 

... which was my major point even earlier. Conformance tests won't get 
you what you wanted.  Major apps are relying on non-standard 
implementation quirks and even bugs and break even between revisions 
from the same vendor.

> For some very strange definition of 'works'.  The article accompanying 
> it describes parts that don't work.

I will go by what has been posted on the blog.

"Okay, I started mucking around with OpenJDK on Fedora 9 today, and it 
turns out it is pretty easy to build OpenNMS against OpenJDK and get it 
to work"

So more than merely building as your claimed earlier.

   In fact, I'd probably have one running
> under vmware if I expected even that to work without having to track 
> non-standard patches.  Is that listed on the FAQ these days?

Feel free to use rpmfusion.org wiki for writing down all the content you 
wanted.  Any good search engine can be your friend as well.

Rahul




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