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This FAQ was started by Javier Fernández-Sanguino who on February 1st, 2000 was (bold?) enough to send a message to the debian-java mailing list with the subject "How about a Debian-Java-FAQ?". Of course, since "every idea is a responsibility" he had to do this himself looking through the three month-long archive of the newborn mailing list.
The purpose of this FAQ is to be a place to look for all kinds of questions a developer or user might have regarding Java as far as Debian is concerned. It includes license issues, development packages available, and programs related to building a Free Software Java environment.
Thanks go to all the (many) contributors from the debian-java mailing list, who have made this document possible. Without their knowledge this FAQ would not be at all possible since I only have a vague knowledge of what they're talking about when I browse the list.
Special thanks go to Paul Reavis, whose previous Debian-JDK informational page I used to add more information, and who made useful suggestions to this document. Also to Peter Moulder who revised thoroughly the FAQ and provided many suggestions, to Juergen Kreileder, maintainer of Blackdown's debian packages who pointed out some mistakes, and to Egon Willighagen, who has provided quite a lot of proper patches to update its content.
This document does not address issues with other Linux distributions, or with
non-Debian-specific problems. See the Blackdown pages for information on
these. More specifically you might want to check out the [email protected]
FAQ written by Stephen M Wynne (last updated january 2000 as of this
writing). Another useful source of general information might be the Java on Linux FAQ maintained
by Nathan Meyers.
This FAQ is published under the Debian Documentation Project at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/.
The java-common (available at http://packages.debian.org/java-common)
provides an HTML version for offline reading. The package version does not
provide Text and PDF versions currently (if you want them please submit a bug
'wishlist' to the package). Also, the web version might be more up-to-date
than the package's offline version.
Please note that this FAQ is slightly out of date and is seeking an active
maintainer. If you are willing to maintain it and are knowledgeable about Java
in Debian, please contact the current maintainer. In any case, fixes to
information that is not up to date are welcome (patches against the latest
CVS
sources are even better).
In any case, if you want to send bugs on this FAQ please send them to the
current maintainer. However, make sure you are reading the latest (english)
version available at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/index.en.html
Note that translations, if available, might also be slightly out of date from
the original, english, version. Check out the english version first if you are
reading a translation before sending a bug.
Users might want to access some online sources to complement the information
available in this FAQ which might be, sometimes, too out of date. The main
source of information is the Java
entry at the Debian's wiki.
Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, some users might find it helpful to check the
tips on Installing
Java on Ubuntu's wiki.
This FAQ does not describe some issues due to lack of time and/or information. If you are able to help in any of these, please, provide them to the documentation maintainer:
Information on how to use update-alternatives to handle Java and
how /etc/jvm and /etc/java.
Information on how to setup a fully working Servlet engine (Application Server) using Apache and Tomcat or information on how to setup non-free application servers (such as WebSphere) in Debian.
Specific information targeted for non-i386 users (PowerPC users and AMD64 users), some can be found in Ubuntu's wiki.
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Debian GNU/Linux Java FAQ.
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