I use slink with a couple of potato packages... glibc2.1, most importantly. I use 2.2.13 and ibm-java 1.1.8. I never had any problem with it, and we are running jserv and gnujsp with it, and it is really a thorough test, I think. It runs bongo without a hickup as well, so the visual parts are ok as well. It is the most stable jdk on Linux I have ever seen. Robert Varga