Fedora and JPackage proprietary JDK shims

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>  I think we need to re-gage this after we're a bit into F9 general
> availability. The open source alternatives to Java have gotten much, much
> better this go round, and many of the early adopters I've talked to have
> said their java issues have gone completely away. We need to figure out what
> role proprietary java will now play in the lives of our users.

Going forward, I think very little to none.  Apps which only support
Java 5 will be a pain point for a while, but there are some Red Hat
hackers working on more complete generic architecture support with a
LLVM-based JIT.