Java and openjdk

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> That's a matter of opinion.  It may matter to you why your 3rd party 
> application doesn't run.  It matters to me whether it runs or not.

It is not a matter of opinion. You claimed that if Fedora shipped 
official Java, then the problems would disappear for third party 
applications. It certainly wouldn't and that has been proven by what is 
available in Fedora 9 which passes the TCK tests 100%.

>> OpenJDK is Fedora 9 is officially Java and certified as such. You 
>> cannot continue to claim otherwise. If you still run into problems, 
>> you should be filing bug reports.
> 
> Against what? Applications that specify that they require Sun Java 1.4 
> or 1.5? 

Are you running any recent release of Fedora? What are the specific 
issues? Depending on implementation specific quirks would certainly be a 
bug. Have you ever filed a single bug report in 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com against Fedora?  Your bugs should be filed 
depending on whether it is a application issue or a implementation 
issue. If applications follow the standard specification, they would be 
compatible with all implementation s of Java which follow the 
specification whether it is OpenJDK in Fedora 9, Sun Java, IBM Java or 
something else.

Rahul