sun jdk vs java-1.6.0-openjdk

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 26/07/10 12:33, Joerg Bergmann wrote:
>    Am 26.07.2010 11:41, schrieb Andrew Haley:
>> On 07/25/2010 05:43 AM, Bob Hartung wrote:
>>
>>>      I have loaded Fedora13 without a hitch and am impressed by the
>>> improvements!
>>>
>>>      However, I am just now beginning Java programming and I am wondering
>>> if there is any substantial difference between java-1.6.0-openjdk and
>>> the sun jdk.
>> They are based on the same source code and both conform to the same
>> language specification.  For almost all purposes you won't see any
>> difference.
>>
> I cannot confirm that. In real live, with Java apps not developed
> for OpenJava, 50% of the "large" applets as developed using Sun
> JDK fail with OpenJava. A simple example: The german tax office
> has an online tax system called "Elster". There is an applet
> for secure communication with Elster using public/private
> keys, this applet fails using OpenJava. Another example is related
> to javax.imageio, output of images to files simply does not work
> in OpenJava. Installation of Sun Java is one of the first modifications
> I do to Fedora. Unfortunately, on every update of OpenJava, OpenJava
> would become the default Java again.
>
> M$ has given the freedom of selecting between IE, Firefox, Opera etc.
> It would be a good act of freedom to give the fedora user the choice
> between OpenJava and SunJava. At now, half the Fedora System depends
> on OpenJava (same story as of Windows depends on IE), for that reason
> I cannot deselect OpenJava.

I have completely removed java-1.6.0-openjdk before installing Sun's java and 
have not noticed any problem with that. Do you have an example of an application 
that won't work unless openjdk is also installed?

-- 
Erik