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Re: which JDK to use?

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: which JDK to use?
Date	2011-09-05 11:13 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:17:32 -0700 (PDT), steveh44
<steve_h44@yahoo.com> 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.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/gettingstarted.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdk.html
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, 
the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)

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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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