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Re: which JDK to use?

From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: which JDK to use?
Date	2011-09-05 13:16 -0700
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Roedy Green wrote:
> steveh44 wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>> I'd like to learn Java. Should I be using the openJDK or the JDK from
>> oracle? not sure what is the difference. Which is the real Java?
> 
> Nearly everyone uses Oracle.  That is the one newbies should use.

As Qu0ll and I pointed out, this is pretty much equivalent to using OpenJDK.  Most Linuces use OpenJDK, as Arne pointed out.  There's really no difference. I've also used IBM's JDK 6 without any pain.

To Qu0ll's point that Oracle's JDK 7 is OpenJDK, that's 99% true.  There are pieces you can purchase that supplement the open-source part, such as the soft real-time version, that are not in OpenJDK.  I was unable to confirm that the current Oracle release is precisely the same as OpenJDK, but it's clear that the differences, if any, are in the corners.

Anyway, for the OP's purpose just use either one.

-- 
Lew

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which JDK to use? steveh44 <steve_h44@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-04 07:17 -0700
  Re: which JDK to use? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-04 11:00 -0400
    Re: which JDK to use? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-04 12:10 -0700
      Re: which JDK to use? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-09-06 05:31 +1000
      Re: which JDK to use? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-05 16:35 -0400
  Re: which JDK to use? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-05 11:13 -0700
    Re: which JDK to use? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-05 13:16 -0700
      Re: which JDK to use? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-05 15:56 -0700
        Re: which JDK to use? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-05 20:15 -0400
          Re: which JDK to use? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-05 17:39 -0700
        Re: which JDK to use? Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-09-06 15:31 +0100
      Re: which JDK to use? "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2011-09-06 00:59 -0700

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