Bug#412495: java-package: Alternatives for minor versions of Java

Marcus Better marcus at better.se
Mon Feb 26 13:48:32 UTC 2007


Stepan Koltsov wrote:
> Very often it is required to run Java application with concrete version
> of JDK: 1.4 or 1.5.

Yes, and what's more sometimes a concrete implementation is needed.

> To achieve this, new executables should be created in /usr/bin:

It should be enough to set JAVA_HOME and fix the application so that it
respects this, if it really requires a specific JRE.

Marcus





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