m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
>>> We've got a developer here who needs to use both java and openjdk. I was
>>> giving her sudo for alternatives, but my manager would prefer that I
>>> look into environment-modules. I've installed it, and I see it comes with
>>> configurations for cvs and info... but nothing for java, and the man
>>> pages doesn't seem to offer info on creating one.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a pointer to a howto, or maybe even a sample one?
>> install openjdk uia standard centos 5.x rpms, install Sun Java to
>> /usr/java/jdk-whatever via the Sun tarball.
>
> Already did that (btw, Sun doesn't give you a tarball, they give you a
> self-extracting .bin).
>> if you put /usr/java/jdk-whatever/bin first in the path, you'll be using
>> the Sun java. if you take it out of the path, you will be using the
>> default distribution openjdk.
>
> I'm trying to provide a simple method for switching between the two, and I
> don't have any guarantee that someone *other* than this developer, who
> seems knowledgeable, will have to do the same thing.
>
> I reiterate: does anyone have any examples for a modulefile for java?
You don't need to switch. You can have as many java versions as you want