[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Re: JAVA_HOME, sun vs. openjdk inconsistencies

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Hi Chad!

I made the change to openjdk because the Sun java package is  
considered deprecated (though still available) in both Debian and  
Ubuntu. To support installing Sun's package where it is available, we  
should utilize either a separate recipe in the kava cookbook, or  
control the preferred package via an attribute. The default should be  
openjdk, as it's the default on all of Devian, Ubuntu and RHEL/Centos.

Please open a ticket in the cookbook project. If you have a patch,  
please link to the github branch.

Thank you!

On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Chad Woolley <
 >  
wrote:

> Is there any reason there can't be both?  I already copied the sun
> version from the history to a "java_sun" cookbook .  Would you like me
> to contribute it in a patch?
>
> On Tuesday, June 1, 2010, Adam Jacob 
> <
>  >
>  wrote:
> > I certainly have a personal preference for the Sun JDK, myself.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Chad Woolley  
> > <
> >  > wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Chad Woolley <
> > >   
> > > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > The "java" cookbook now installs OpenJDK instead of Sun's JDK.
> > >
> > > Also, Tomcat doesn't even work with OpenJDK6:
> > >
> > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun/management/snmp/ 
> > > AdaptorBootstrap
> > >
> > > Looks like they are adding this in OpenJDK7, but for now Tomcat is
> > > broken with the default 'java' recipe.
> > >
> > > What drove the switch to OpenJDK over Sun now?  Why not wait until  
> > > it
> > > is actually removed?  Or even better, have cookbooks for both  
> > > versions
> > > in the repo?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -- Chad
> >
> >
> >
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