On 07/26/2010 11:33 AM, Joerg Bergmann wrote:
Am 26.07.2010 11:41, schrieb Andrew Haley:
> On 07/25/2010 05:43 AM, Bob Hartung wrote:
>
>> I have loaded Fedora13 without a hitch and am impressed by the
>> improvements!
>>
>> However, I am just now beginning Java programming and I am wondering
>> if there is any substantial difference between java-1.6.0-openjdk and
>> the sun jdk.
>
> They are based on the same source code and both conform to the same
> language specification. For almost all purposes you won't see any
> difference.
>
I cannot confirm that. In real live, with Java apps not developed
for OpenJava, 50% of the "large" applets as developed using Sun
JDK fail with OpenJava.
That's really a very different use case: the web browser plugin, while
important, isn't part of the Java SE platform, and is not very likely
to affect anyone who wants to learn the Java language.
Andrew.