Re: Fully open source java (and jsp) under Woody and Sarge
William Ballard <nospam_40811 <at> alltel.net> writes:
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:32:17PM +0000, rec.sea <at> btopenworld.com wrote:
> > Is there a list of Open Source jre / sdk / j2ee equivalents available for
> > Debian somewhere?
>
> Although there are now a good many free JVMs in Debian Main now, I have
> been utterly unsuccessful at getting Eclipse to be happy with any of
> them. They are valid enough for taking raw .java files and producing
> some sort of code with them, but they aren't drop-in replacements.
>
> IMO you have to bite the bullet and install the non-free Blackdown Java
> if you care at all about Eclipse or doing Java-ish things in Apache,
> unless you want to live in utter hackdom and have at best a poorly
> performing Kludge.
>
> It's really scandalous. One Day there will be a free JVM and all will
> rejoice, but that day is not today.
You're cordially invited to help fix the scandalous kludge and make that day
arrive a bit sooner.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/docs/hacking.html#SEC3 for details.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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