Beware because debugging is broken with Blackdown's JDK 1.4.2_01 on AMD64. It's been reported several times in their BTS, but there's been no answer so far (at least on the BTS; I haven't checked their mailing list, if they have one).
Also, if you use Eclipse, avoid Sun's JDK (Blackdown's included) because the JIT has a bug that's triggered frequently by the editor causing Eclipse to crash.
I found IBM's JDK 1.4.2 to be the most stable on AMD64, though it has its own bugs (not so severe as the others on this platform) and no public bug tracking system to report them. There is a newsgroup but there's barely any traffic there, though I've seen an IBM employee answering once.
In brief, I'm using IBM's JDK 1.4.2 and I can't complain because I least it gets the work done (and I use it constantly).
Juan A wrote:
www.blackdown.comlook for a mirror, add it to your sources.list, check you have non-free also in you main mirror and you´re doneapt-get install j2sdk1.4 or j2re1.4 Robert King escribió:There are licence problems. The java-package package allows you to install downloaded java (list of supported stuff in the package), but you still need to download seperatelyOn Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:40, Patrick Carlson wrote:Hello. I'm a little confused as to getting Java on my AMD64 system. Can I apt-get install it? I went to java.com and they seem to have an AMD64 self extracting binary. I would rather use apt-get though so that I can keep it up to date. Thank you for the help.
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