Shawn wrote:
It seems bizarre for an office suite to depend on a java servlet engine, but OK...
Now how do I get one that works under Sun java? And is there
a way to get eclipse without gcj?
Not from Red Hat (wrt sun java) ... they did use tomcat and gcj. If you want sun java, I imagine you would have to change the specs and rebuild. I have no idea how to do that (I have not looked at it at all).
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS
You COULD get the OOo2 suite from the openoffice.org website ... that gets rid of the tomcat issues.
Eclipse ... not sure.
I kept having serious issues with gcj and so went to sun's version then just got a .tar.gz package from eclipse.org
But that's kind of horrible because now you have to keep it updated yourself.
I run it with: -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.12/jre/bin/java -vmargs -XX:PermSize=1024M
[-vm is because I do have gcj installed but do _not_ want to use it; -XX is that with sun's java and what I was doing, it would crash unless the vm had a larger permSize]
Doesn't the alternatives mechanism take care of that? It doesn't seem that well thought out, though. What if you want to run some programs under one java version and others with a different one? We're trying to update some systems currently running under centos 3.x/java 1.4.x to the most current versions that will work so I'd like to install the 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 versions side-by-side on the same development machine so if we run into any problems we can easily test under earlier versions to see if there are differences.