On 3/15/2010 12:33 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Roland RoLaNdr_o_l_a_n_d@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
i'm trying to install jboss where it asks me for java 1.5 i have both 1.4 and 1.6 installed with JAVA_HOME pointing to 1.6
i downloaded jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin and executed it.. though nothing changed.. when i execute : alternatives --config java
i can only see 1.4 and 1.6
The java bin from Sun that you ran doesn't set the alternatives framework up. That only gets done via the jpackage rpms or manually jamming the information in.
And the alternatives concept is only suitable for providing a single default. In the more likely case that you need specific JVM versions for specific applications or different ones for testing and production, you have to export JAVA_HOME for it anyway.