Re: [WBEL-users] Java

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:07, Eric B. wrote:
> Have you tried just checking the Sun site?  Are you looking just for the JVM 
> or the JRE?
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
> Click on the download link, and you'll find the Sun J2SE download kit 
> available in an rpm.bin format.  Basically, you download the rpm.bin file, 
> and execute it.  It will extract the rpm.  Then you can just rpm -i the 
> extracted java.rpm file.

And you lose as soon as you do that.  RH assumes you are using JPackage,
including for the JDK.  Go to Jpackage.org and follow their directions
on using their nosrc.rpm and the tarball version of the Sun JDK to
create a proper installable rpm.  Otherwise none of the RH derived Java
tools will work right.  Commercial vendors never seem to be able to
create a working rpm.  Sun can't, Nvidia & ATI can't, etc.

Yes it is a pain in the rear but it is Sun's ball and you play with it
their way or they don't let you use it at all.  It would be a lot easier
if they allowed jpackage.org to make a ready to run rpm available, then
you would just add jpackage.org to your yum/up2date configuration and
bam!, instant Java support.

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