Re: Free JREs

[Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org>]

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Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:50:27 +0200, 
Mariano García <mariano.garcia@optivamedia.com> wrote: 

> * I want to try a free jre (i think something like kaffe). What is the
> better free jre? I mean, I have some programs made with Sun JRE, so I
> want to try the most compatible free jre with Sun jre.

jamvm, sablevm, kaffe, gij are great candidates. I don't know much about
other VM in Debian. 

> * If I use Kaffe (for example) Can I use java debian package like
> eclipse, argouml, ... ?

Some had success with free VM's and eclipse 2.1, but I think eclipse 3
does not run on free VM.

ArgoUML does not run with free VM's at the moment because of Swing
problems. I need to finish libjmi-java and I'll package the new ArgoUML
upstream and I'll try to build it with free VM's.

> * Now I am using Sun JRE, installed without using 'java-package'. Do you
> recommend me install it using 'java-package'?

I don't know but it's maybe a good idea if you want to install some
packages that require a non-free JRE.

Cheers,

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