Java - Sun or other? Prefer less bugs & more stable.

[Salvadesswaran P.S.]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM, giovanni_re <john_re at fastmail.us> wrote:
> What are the options for Java as of 10.4?
>
> Around 9.04, IIRC, there was Sun's, & another independent implementation considered Debian free.  The sun version IIRC was considered more bug free, but perhaps not DFSG free.
>
> I'd prefer less bugs & more stable.

> This will be used by some applications that need a java engine to run java code.  Ex: Eclipse?  & some others I don't recall.

I believe you need only the JRE for running java code. JDK afaik is
used only for compiling/interpreting java source code. I had no
problems while installing Eclipse on 10.04.


> For a 10.4 install, what is the current advice & issues??

Most of my code runs perfectly well on OpenJDK in 10.04, and there are
not many issues that arise to mind.


> Thanks :)


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Salvadesswaran Srinivasan
Chennai