Hi all,
IcedTea for CentOS 5/i386 is now available through the CentOS-testing repository. IcedTea provides a development platform/runtime environment based on OpenJDK[1]. It is basically OpenJDK, with the binary plugs replaced by stubs or GNU Classpath code. These packages were built upon the excellent work of the IcedTea and Fedora projects.
To use IcedTea with some Java programs that are included in CentOS like Ant, you also need a new jpackage-utils package that is also available through the testing repository.
Information on using the CentOS Testing repository can be found on the CentOS Wiki at:
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
Take care, Daniel
PS. IcedTea for CentOS 5/x86_64 will soon be available.
PPS. IcedTea may or may not work out of the box with Java applications included in CentOS 5. E.g. CentOS 5 Eclipse doesn't work here, but Eclipse from eclipse.org runs fine (after setting the compiler level to 1.5.0).