The main motivation to use the Sun JRE was size: apt-get install openjdk-headless brought in X and a whole bunch of unnecessary stuff. The difference in size was considerable. IIRC, 80 MB for the Sun JRE vs a total of nearly 400 MB for other option.
On 1/8/13 9:58 AM, "Musayev, Ilya" <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: >While working on CentOS version of System Offering Templates, I used this >script as a point of reference >https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=blob; >f=patches/systemvm/debian/buildsystemvm.sh;hb=6e739412 > >I'm about 60% complete and now on the stage of resolving all packages >that are required. > >I also see that we use sun-java-6 in current Ubuntu Squeeze System >Offerings. > >Should we continue using Oracle/Sun Java or should we migrate to a more >GNU friendly version of OpenJDK? > >I know my work (and others) will be greatly simplified if we go with Sun >Java - as QA will be minimal, nevertheless, Oracle has been working hard >at tightening their licensing of Java - please read this Wikipedia page >for more details - >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)#Licensing > >I propose two solutions: > > >1) Proceed with CentOS System VM offering using sun java 6 > >a. Minimal QA and all binaries should work as expected > >b. Migrate to OpenJDK after the QA/fixes has been done > >c. Should be minimal or no issues with java library compatibilities > > >2) Attempt to transition CentOS System Offering to OpenJDK > >a. Uncertain of where it puts us with stability/compatibility and >bug fixes - if any > >Obviously I would prefer option 1 - but it may not be the right thing >todo in the long run. > >Thoughts? > >-ilya
