2008/12/17 Girish Kulkarni <[email protected]>: > 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment? And the Java Development Kit?
The JRE includes a virtual machine for running Java programs, the JDK is stuff like the Java compiler and associated programs you need to build and debug Java code. > 2. What is my compiler? My Virtual Machine? You can choose to use Java's non-free javac compiler (apt-cache search sun java jdk), gcj, or OpenJDK. > 3. Are there any free software implementations of Java? Yeah, gcj and OpenJDK are the big ones. OpenJDK is a fully comformant implementation of Java and I have not run into any problems with it at all; it's Sun's official open implementation of Java. Unfortunately, OpenJDK is too new to be packaged for etch, but you can try to build it from sources. HTH, - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
