Ubuntu 12.04 and JAMVM

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Richard Warburton
<richard.warburton at gmail.com> wrote:
> JAM VM is the default on ARM [0], is that the platform you're installing on?

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS on 32-bit x86

oh, this sheds some light:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7

icedtea-7-jre-cacao: Transitional package for obsolete Cacao JVM for OpenJDK
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm: Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using JamVM
openjdk-7-dbg: Java runtime based on OpenJDK (debugging symbols)
openjdk-7-demo: Java runtime based on OpenJDK (demos and examples)
openjdk-7-doc: OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) documentation
openjdk-7-jdk: OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)
openjdk-7-jre: OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot Zero
openjdk-7-jre-headless: OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot Zero (headless)
openjdk-7-jre-lib: OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independent libraries)
openjdk-7-jre-zero: Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using Zero/Shark
openjdk-7-source: OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) source files

So it looks like I should be installing package ´openjdk-7-jre´, which
was NOT listed among the options when one types ´java´ on a freshly
installed Ubuntu system.

It´s a bit odd that calling "java" when it´s not installed only gives
JAM VM and Cacao as options, and openjdk-7-jre is not listed. As if
they don´t want Hotspot installed.

Maybe I should file a bug to have openjdk-7-jre shown along the other
alternatives...

But this brings another question:

icedtea-7-jre-cacao: Transitional package for obsolete Cacao JVM for OpenJDK
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm: Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using JamVM

does this mean that Icedtea -the browser plug-in- can only be used
with JamVM and Cacao in Ubuntu?

FC

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