I see, I think. I thought there was something "not working" for you. Anyway, I'm probably missing something, but I view Java as Java, and almost entirely platform independent. So, my take on these points are--and obviously they're just opinions/points of view :) Mailing list? There are already too many, adding one in the guise of being Suse specific seems counterproductive. Use Sun's, or Java Ranch. How to develop? I don't see why you'd want to develop something in a platform specific way in the first place. A large part of the point (again, in my view) is that Java is almost entirely platform independent. /etc/alternatives? Yup, I'm right there with you on this one. I found myself messing about for about 30 minutes trying to work out how to get both 1.4.2 and 1.5 in in a way that they'd co-exist peacefully. In the end, I hid 1.4.2 entirely and let 1.5 rule the roost. Not really what I wanted given that I teach this stuff and might need to call on older versions for some classes. Also suprising, given that Sun has a mechanism for handling this that is really a generic Unix approach, and I can't see why SuSE doesn't just go with it. Maybe they did better, but we just don't see how :) Out of date packages? I get it from Sun, I'm not sure why anyone would get it from anywhere else, but I'm probably myopic on this one. $0.02, Simon --- Tim Pizey <suse@paneris.co.uk> wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 19:39, Simon Roberts wrote:
What exactly is your problem with Java and SuSE?
Lack of a suse-java mailing list, Lack of an official 'how to develop j2ee applications the Novell/SuSE way' page, lack (perhaps) of mechanisms for updating /etc/alternatives, the fact that http://www.jpackage.org/ latest packages are for SuSE 9.0
No doubt I will get around these problems and will be a happy user again soon.
cheers Tim P
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