Re: [opennms-devel] Trouble building Debian packages

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:27 -0400, Jeff Gehlbach wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Alex Bennee wrote:
> >> apt-get install sun-java6-bin
> >
> > What does it need from here? It's actually installed but I'm using the
> > openjdk jre and jdk because I want to avoid any pitfalls with the
> > non-free Java's.
> 
> We would love to run with a fully free JDK, but so far it just hasn't  
> been possible.  OpenNMS has historically needed a real Sun JDK, or an  
> equivalent real Sun-derived JDK on platforms where Sun does not  
> distribute one.  Over the years people have tried Kaffe / GCJ / GIJ /  
> IcedTea JDKs, but they have never measured up.  Some lack features  
> necessary to bootstrap OpenNMS, others just aren't robust enough to  
> run OpenNMS at any real-world scale.

I've been building on Ubuntu with OpenJDK and running (or at least I
think I have unless the build system worked itself around my java
setup).

> 
> So for now, stick with the Sun JDK.  You're welcome to edit  
> OPENNMS_HOME/etc/java.conf after running runjava -s and see what  
> happens, but it's not likely to be pretty -- if it breaks, you get to  
> keep both pieces :)

So far the OpenJDK seems to be working fine for me.

> 
> -jeff
> 
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