[fedora-java] Re: How to setup full-fledged Java development environment under FC5?

[Andrew Haley]

Ian Pilcher writes:
 > Dan Thurman wrote:
 > > Can anyone give me some pointers on how to get a serious
 > > Java development environment setup going?  I want to have
 > > full flexibility to download and install Eclipse tools and
 > > applications without being unencumbered with Fedora's port
 > > version preventing such operations, for example if I need
 > > to get RCP, WSP, Swing, AWT, and the zillions of other things
 > > that are rapidly being released by the Eclipse community.
 > 
 > It takes a little work, but it can be done.  For a 100% "real" Java
 > environment, you'll first want to remove all the gcj-compiled packages
 > from your system.

What for?  They will still work.

Install whatever runtime environment you want via an RPM from
jpackage.org and use /usr/sbin/alternatives to switch to it. 

Andrew.