CentOS - Nov 2008 - Sun depricates JRE 1.4.2, what impact on Centos?

From a different list:

"JRE from SUN is getting depracated:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html"


Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm.  What impact does this all have?

I do have JRE 1.6.0_05 installed on most of my systems (I see that 
update 10 is the now current version).

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at
htt-consult.com> wrote:
> From a different list:
>
> "JRE from SUN is getting depracated:
>
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html"
>
>
> Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm.  What impact does this all
have?
Not much on CentOS directly. I believe the code that CentOS comes with
is a compiler to allow for 1.4.x code to be compiled within
limitations to local execution. It does not act as a Run Time engine.
Fixes to the compat have been seperate from what Sun has had to supply
to their 1.4.2.

For the enterprise customer, it could have some impact as MANY
enterprise applications work only on 1.4.x.

I also believe that IBM was saying that it would support their 1.4.x
for a while longer. But I haven't seen confirmation of that.


> I do have JRE 1.6.0_05 installed on most of my systems (I see that update
10
> is the now current version).
The next CentOS-5.x should come with openjdk-6 when RHEL-5.3 is
released. That will be more of where interesting issues may come.

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On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:14 -0500, Robert Moskowitz
wrote:
> From a different list:
> 
> "JRE from SUN is getting depracated:
> 
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html"
> 
> 
> Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm.  What impact does this all
have?
> 
> I do have JRE 1.6.0_05 installed on most of my systems (I see that 
> update 10 is the now current version).
I can't answer your prime question, but I have and do run the jre-6u
5/6/7 issues from the java site successfully. Trying the update 10 from
there fails, but I "unnerstan" that's been biased towards WinBlows
for
the new Explorer browser.

I do have the java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115 in use as well.
> <snip sig stuff>
-- 
Bill

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html"
> Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm.  What impact does this all 
> have?
you might want to investigate what that 'gcj' bit means. Knowing what 
you are talking about never hurt anyone, that I know of anyway.

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