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Re: JRE which openjdk & gcj



On Monday 14 July 2008 05:26:14 pm Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:59:00PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > On Monday 14 July 2008 02:47:06 pm Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:02:05AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I have noticed that openjdk has made it into the repo's.  Wondering
> > > > what people thoughts where on
> > > >
> > > > openjdk, gij and gcj ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Seems like we have lots of choice, and there might be a chance to see
> > > > a 64B browser plugin now, but how ready are they to use in
> > > > production.
> > > >
> > > > My understand is gcj and the classpath libraries are still a bit
> > > > wanting
> > >
> > > I ran into a problem the other day... my current class sort of
> > > requires the use of Eclipse, okay that's fine, though it's no emacs
> > > ;-P.
> > >
> > > Anyway, in sid currently, installing eclipse pulls in gcj and uses
> > > that as the default. THe problem? no Scanner... wtf? why won't my code
> > > work at home when it will at school? long story short, sun-java6-jdk
> > > works great.
> > >
> > > very very much .02
> > >
> > > A
> >
> > I do not follow or understand all the development, GPL and Java. 
> > However, when ever possible, I install Sun-java.  It works.  gcj does not
> > always work. Why?  I don't know.  If Java is open, then when does not the
> > open java work? Beats me.
>
> My synopsis of the issue is java is more than just the compiler, its the
> compiler plus the base libraries it gcj case that is classpath, class
> path is aiming for 1.4 (I  think) compatibility and it is missing some
> fundamental classes, but remember gcj is opensource, volunteer work. and
> it is gij & gcj, one a interpreter and the other a compiler. OpenJDK is
> redhat backed open source jdk/jre - it seems to have a more full class
> library and they are going for jdk 5 (or 6?) compliance and have
> recently passed some certification level
>
> I haven't used openjdk and I used gcj a while back (its installed but I
> default to the sun implementation) there is also the ibm version and
> bea's versions

Thanks!  Very informative.
>
> > --
> > Damon L. Chesser
> > damon@damtek.com
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser



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