Hello,
I have quite a few issues with the default OpenJdk package on CentOS 5.4 x86_64 (e.g. crash of Eclipse [1], and now excessive permgen memory requirement causing the JVM to freeze and requiring a kill -9).
These issues do not appear with a local build of the latest stable IcedTea [2], so I am considering using a more recent version of the JVM (I am not running Red Hat certified Java apps).
Does anyone know of ongoing efforts to provide recent versions of the JDK as (S)RPMs?
I found some in CentOS Testing [3] but they date back from July 2008 and are b09 whereas current is b16.
Thanks in advance for any hints!
Cheers,
Mathieu
[1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=401 [2] http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/RhelBuildInstructions [3] http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/x86_64/RPMS/