Les Mikesell wrote: > On 9/24/2010 12:55 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>>> Well, other than that openjdk has not supplied/supported the java >>>> browser plugin since last year, and the "workaround" is to install >>>> Sun's, er, sorry, Oracle's java.... >>> >>> Has Oracle been any more sensible about building an RHEL-style (with >>> appropriate locations and alternatives setup) RPM than Sun was? >> >> Haven't seen anything yet... except where Oracle put their name in place >> of Sun's in the latest release of java, and *broke* a huge amount of >> software... including Eclipse, becuase for some inane Java (sorry, I'm >> repeating myself) reason, they were looking for the string "Sun >> Microsystems", instead of *just* the version and subversion release >> numbers.... > > That's interesting... Well, no, it's strange. Does openjdk still have > the sun name in the right place? And I thought RH had made their > version of eclipse work with gjc before deciding to put Sun java in > their update stream and later going with openjdk. No idea, but here's the tale: <http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/2121259/Oracles-Java-Company-Change-Breaks-Eclipse> mark