On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Hans Witvliet <suse@a-domani.nl> wrote:

Hi,

Any java guru's around here?

Perhaps i'm a bit confused about the naming structure...

For one of the projects i'm working for, the manual tels me that openjdk is preferred above (Oracle-)JDK, and that i should use openjdk6.

A couple of weeks ago i saw openjdk6-1.6.0, but when ik look now, all i see is java-1_7_0-openjdk-1.7.0.6-3.16.1.i586 Are these both versions of openjdk6 ?

Should i be able to install/use 1.7.0 instead of 1.6.0 ?? Or are they incompatible?

Hans

I don't know why but: Java 4 is released as java-1_4 Java 5 is released as java-1_5 Java 6 is released as java-1_6 Java 7 is released as java-1_7 And there can be backward compatibility issues between the versions, so you can always try your Java 6 app in Java 7, but if it doesn't work try it with Java 6 instead. fyi: When a Java app is built it can specify which JREs it needs to run, so it may just immediately fail and say you need some specific version. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org