On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:49:49AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | I've heard that the Sun and Blackdown are identical for jdk1.3, I've | installed both and on the surface they appeared identical. By inspecting | one of the Blackdown mirror sites, I was able to successfully configure | my sources.list file and persuade apt to work.
Yeah, the Blackdown people signed an NDA with Sun in order to port the Sun jdk to Linux. I think now Sun has decided to actually distribute a Linux JDK directly from their website so they use the Blackdown people's work. | I use 'javac' to compile .java to .class, 'java' to run .class files. | I've heard that gcj is only 1.0 compatible. Any know of a jdk1.3 | compatible compiler to create binaries? Do you mean like native binaries? If so, then no. Otherwise I use jikes because it is nice and fast and produces better error messages (IMO). -D
