Ian Pilcher writes: > Dan Thurman wrote: > > Can anyone give me some pointers on how to get a serious > > Java development environment setup going? I want to have > > full flexibility to download and install Eclipse tools and > > applications without being unencumbered with Fedora's port > > version preventing such operations, for example if I need > > to get RCP, WSP, Swing, AWT, and the zillions of other things > > that are rapidly being released by the Eclipse community. > > It takes a little work, but it can be done. For a 100% "real" Java > environment, you'll first want to remove all the gcj-compiled packages > from your system. What for? They will still work. Install whatever runtime environment you want via an RPM from jpackage.org and use /usr/sbin/alternatives to switch to it. Andrew.
