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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com