[K12OSN] Gcj vs javac

[Luis Montes]

I'd recommend installing Sun's jdk. Works fine on k12ltsp.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

I'd just pull down the jdk (not the jre, or the jdk+netbeans bundle)

Then make sure the bin directory is in your $PATH
also I'd set $JAVA_HOME to the directory the jdk was installed to. 
Probably /usr/local/java/j2sdkxxx or something like that if you used the RPM

As far as IDEs I'd go with eclipse

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Luis


Eric Brown wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>I'm preparing for an eventual programming class in Java.  I had a few
>semesters of Java in college.  I tried the very simple  "Hello World" using
>gcj, only to have it tell me it didn't know what main was ("undefined
>reference to main").  I usually figure I made the mistake, so I googled
>Hello
>World, and copied and pasted someone else's code and still got the same
>error.
>
>How different is gcj vs javac?  Will I mess up my terminal server setup if I
>install Sun's SDK?
>
>Any strong feelings or success stories about any IDE's?  I'd just stick with
>gedit, but I'd like it to do a little more for me.
>
>Thanks,
>Eric
>
>Viva la Open Source!
>
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