2009/6/9 Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) frankly3d@gmail.com:

Hoping to package BlueJ. http://www.bluej.org/about/what.html

Q1: http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html Downloadable jar file, (and use contents of) or http://www.bluej.org/download/source-download.html Contains mix of Win\Mac*nix stuff in the source zip

The package must be built from source so the second option in this case.

Q2: The third party bits that are required to run the BlueJ, have to be removed from the BlueJ Package as per https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-June/msg00004.html

If not already included in FP, they would have to be packaged separately, from their upstream sites?

Dependencies should be packaged separately and from upstream. There are exceptions to this but they are rare and should generally be avoided if possible. A lot of the dependencies may well already be packaged within Fedora

Q3: Is there anyone in devel-list who has packaged *java apps* who would be willing to guide me as this would be my first package.

fedora-java-list is a good place to find java packagers although i am sure there are some here too.

Q4: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java is most current re. java?

Those are the guidelines (for java packages) which should generally be adhered to in addition to the standard packaging guidelines.