* Athenas Jimenez <athenasjim@xxxxxxxxx> [2015-11-16 10:44]: > Hi, > > I'm kind of new in java, so probably my question is too obvious. The other day > looking into /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.65-3.b17.fc21.x86_64 in my > Fedora, I notice some duplicated binaries like bin/java and jre/bin/java. > > I read about the difference between JRE and JDK, but I don't get why is > necessary to keep both binaries if we only use one of them. > > Hope you can help me to understand a little more. > We mimic how upstream lays out files (including dupes). As for why there are duplicate files in the first place -- I am not sure, it may be due to historical reasons when the files in the JDK (bin/) differed from the files in the JRE (jre/bin/). The docs don't shed much light on it other than saying that they are identical: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/windows/jdkfiles.html Above link is for Windows but the layout stands for Linux as well. Deepak > Thanks a lot. > Athenas > -- > java-devel mailing list > java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
