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Re: New work on java-package



On 03/19/2012 02:04 PM, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> For example, JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, one of the main IDEs for Java 
> development, still doesn't endorse the use of OpenJDK. If you download 
> IDEA and launch it via a terminal, you will see the following warning:
> 
> 
> ~$ ./idea-IC-111.277/bin/idea.sh
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11pre) (6b24~pre2-1)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)
> WARNING: You are launching IDE using OpenJDK Java runtime.
> 
>           THIS IS STRICTLY UNSUPPORTED DUE TO KNOWN PERFORMANCE AND 
> GRAPHICS PROBLEMS!
> 
> NOTE:    If you have both Oracle (Sun) JDK and OpenJDK installed
>           please validate either IDEA_JDK, JDK_HOME, or JAVA_HOME 
> environment variable points to valid Oracle (Sun) JDK installation.
>           See http://ow.ly/6TuKQ for more info on switching default JDK

But that's their fault, not OpenJDK's; if there's actually anything
wrong with OpenJDK that stops IDEA working, that would be another
matter.  I'd note that OpenJDK is the official Java SE 7 Reference
Implementation, so if IntelliJ IDEA doesn't even work with the RI,
it really is JetBrains' fault!

Andrew.


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