On both my 4.10 system (this one: tao) and one on my 5.3 platforms, I'm *finally* using jdk14. Can I free up the linux-sun-jdk14 binary and space and yet be
able to build/rebuild everything Java??
Yes.
If you use portupgrade, you might get pkgdb complaining about apache-ant or somesuch depending on the linux-sun-jdk14 port, but that can be fixed easily by running 'pkgdb -F'. All of the Java stuff should pretty much "just work"(tm) exactly the same with the native jdk14 port, although there may be one or two things that don't either crash or freeze up with the native JDK...
When you remove the linux-sun-jdk port, check /usr/local/etc/javavms for sanity. Also check for environment variables like JAVA_HOME, JDK_HOME or CLASSPATH -- for best results those variables should (probably) be unset. Most Java apps should be using /usr/local/bin/javavm which is a shell script that automatically substitutes whatever your favourite JVM is. Those environment variables will override that behaviour, which is something you only want to do if (a) you know what you're doing and (b) that's what you specifically intend to do.
Cheers,
Matthew
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