[fedora-java] Re: Replacing FC4 Free Java with SUN's Java

[Robin Green]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:24:26 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:

> Robin Green wrote:
>> HOWEVER, THIS WILL REMOVE OPEN OFFICE, ECLIPSE, AND ALL JAVA PACKAGES
>> - because yum remove is dumb and doesn't know about alternative JDK
>> packages. Don't say I didn't warn you!
> 
> Will Fedora's OpenOffice work with other JVM's?

Yes. In fact, it will work better with a Sun JVM. The Java code in
OpenOffice.org was originally written with a Sun JVM in mind, and work
needs to be done to bring OO.o and libgcj into full compatibility (last I
heard).

-- 
Robin