[Live-demo] Where should JAVA_HOME be set (if overriding default=openjdk 1.7)?

[Cameron Shorter]

Edgar,
As background:
When Hamish's advice conflicts with mine, on matters such as install 
scripts and debian installers etc, you are usually better to defer to 
Hamish's advice. He has a much broader understanding of these technical 
issues than myself.

On 16/01/12 10:33, Hamish wrote:
> edgar wrote:
>> does the osgeo live-dvd set a JAVA_HOME env var?
>> if yes where?
> in /etc/profile.d/ and /home/user/.profile
>
>> the switcher would have to change it.
> just the value in ~/.profile should be changed, and
> <2 cents>
> the more I think about it, in my humble opinion
> that should be left to the power-users doing the
> beta testing to uncomment or re-comment as they see
> fit. (and if they have a problem editing text files
> then it is in their interest and ours for them to
> learn,&  fast)  a script to change that auto-
> matically (as nice as it may be) is still basically
> over-engineering the issue and adding unneeded
> layers of complication: Keep It Simple and Stupid.
> </2 cents>
>
> wrt system wide, debian already provides the
> `update-alternatives` method of switching; any
> attempt to circumvent or reinvent that is destined
> to make things more complicated and fragile, and
> we ignore that already-invented and already used-
> for-java wheel at our peril.
>
>
> fwiw--
>
> the included `gxmessage` program can be used to
> make quick and nice GUI frontends for a scripts,
> perhaps even with radio buttons.
>
> Ubuntu 12.04 will ship openjdk-7 natively so
> this is just for this 5.5 interim release.
>
> openjdk7 is symlinked to the ubuntu-expected name
> of /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-sun
>
> any desktop icon used for beta testing would be
> removed in the final 5.5 release.
>
> see also http://brunoreis.com/tech/intalling-java-ubuntu-natty/
>
> run-time scripts (as opposed to build-time scripts)
> should go into gisvm/trunk/app-conf/java/ and
> be copied into /usr/local/bin/ by the bin/install_*
> script.
>
>
> thanks,
> Hamish
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