[WBEL-users] Silly question - Java?

William Hooper whooperhsd2 at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 19 14:00:01 CDT 2005


Vic wrote:
> Hi All.
>
>
> At the risk of making a fool of myself again, how exactly do I go about
> getting Java working on a WBEL4/AMD64 installation?
>
> I've tried the jre binary from Sun, but that doesn't provide the "java"
> dependency (which Eclipse wants). I even tried --nodeps, but that just
> fails miserably :-(
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I believe upstream prefers using jpackage: http://www.jpackage.org/

To use Sun's jre, you'll have to use the nosrc.rpm and the Sun tarball to
generate your own RPMs: http://www.jpackage.org/rebuilding.php

-- 
William Hooper



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