Am 26.07.2010 13:36, schrieb Erik P. Olsen: > 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? I just tried to uninstall OpenJava (plus GJC java), obviously the whole OpenOffice depends on OpenJava. No way out. Joerg -- 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
