Glenn Holmer wrote:
What is up with the insane tangle of symlinks that makes up jpackage??! I remember how easy it used to be just to change the link /usr/lib/java and everything would be good. I don't find any documentation on how to do this anymore.
What is the "canonical" way to switch back and forth between 1.4 and 1.5 in SUSE 9.3? surely not by editing all the symlinks in /etc/alternatives, or by uninstalling and reinstalling one or the other every time you want to switch?
Perhaps the easist way would be to open a konsole and run $ export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun/bin/:$PATH each time you specifically want to use java 1.4.2. You could even put this in a shell script. Alternatively, instead of $ java app use $ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun/bin/java app and you'll get the 1.4.2 version. Compiling should be more straightforward if you use the -target flag. -- JDL