> I have Crashes with the b09 too. How did you upgrade the version? We repackaged the Fedora SRPM. (it was discussed on this list in December/January: "[CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel") You can find the SRPMs as well as x86_64 and i386 versions here: http://www.argeo.org/linux/argeo-el/5/plus/ We use this version since then, and have experienced better resource usage and less issues. Please note, that the RPMs as they currently are DO UPGRADE base CentOS. Our goal is to maintain this in the long term and to submit it to one of the additional CentOS repositories if there is enough interest, so we would be happy to have people testing it and providing feedback. We are considering building another version which would not override the stock OpenJDK but install the latest version on the side as an 'alternative'. We did not have the need until then, but it would make sense if there is interest in the community. Here are instructions on how to use our repositories: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2010-January/088368.html You can directly download the repo file ("plus" repositories are disabled so you need to enable the [argeo-plus] one): http://www.argeo.org/linux/argeo-el/5/argeo.repo If you don't want to depend on our repository you can of course rebuild the SRPM. An alternative is to build locally the OpenJDK using the IcedTea harness and deploy it on /opt or /usr/local. Here are pointers on how to do it as well as the rationale for upgrading (with links to the bugs we filed): http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-December/088036.html You can of course always install the latest Sun JDK (our policy is rather to use FLOSS software upon which we have control) Some pointers here, mostly relevant for desktop: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-December/088038.html Hope it helps.