Hi, I downloaded v1 of jdk-1.2 from blackdown. I had no problems getting it to work after following the instructions in the README.linux file. I tested a program that uses the Swing library that comes with jdk-1.2 and it works just fine.
I have slink installed and all I did was to add /usr/jdk1.2/bin to PATH and usr/jdk1.2/lib to CLASSPATH. I also removed my jdk1.1 installation. Hope this helps. ciao Rajesh