On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Jim <binary...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Fedora 18 ,is there openJRE instead of Oracles JRE ?
>
> What Packages would I download ?
>

LONG ANSWER:

OpenJDK7 is the reference implementation of JDK7

Hence, Oracle programmers work on OpenJDK 7 (and 8, and 9...).

The web browser plug-in was one of the few parts not open sourced by Sun in
2006.
That is provided as open source as part of the Icedtea-web package.

More information:
https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the
http://www.redhat.com/summit/2012/pdf/2012-DevDay-OpenJDK-Bhole.pdf

SHORT ANSWER
do the following:

su
yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk
yum install icedtea-web*

That will get you OpenJDK 7 with the web browser plug-in (Icedtea-web) and
Java Webstart Launcher.
FC

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