On 26/07/10 12:33, Joerg Bergmann wrote: > Am 26.07.2010 11:41, schrieb Andrew Haley: >> On 07/25/2010 05:43 AM, Bob Hartung wrote: >> >>> I have loaded Fedora13 without a hitch and am impressed by the >>> improvements! >>> >>> However, I am just now beginning Java programming and I am wondering >>> if there is any substantial difference between java-1.6.0-openjdk and >>> the sun jdk. >> They are based on the same source code and both conform to the same >> language specification. For almost all purposes you won't see any >> difference. >> > I cannot confirm that. In real live, with Java apps not developed > for OpenJava, 50% of the "large" applets as developed using Sun > JDK fail with OpenJava. A simple example: The german tax office > has an online tax system called "Elster". There is an applet > for secure communication with Elster using public/private > keys, this applet fails using OpenJava. Another example is related > to javax.imageio, output of images to files simply does not work > in OpenJava. Installation of Sun Java is one of the first modifications > I do to Fedora. Unfortunately, on every update of OpenJava, OpenJava > would become the default Java again. > > M$ has given the freedom of selecting between IE, Firefox, Opera etc. > It would be a good act of freedom to give the fedora user the choice > between OpenJava and SunJava. At now, half the Fedora System depends > on OpenJava (same story as of Windows depends on IE), for that reason > I cannot deselect OpenJava. I have completely removed java-1.6.0-openjdk before installing Sun's java and have not noticed any problem with that. Do you have an example of an application that won't work unless openjdk is also installed? -- Erik -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
