Setting up some new servers this morning, I was surprised to NOT find sun-java6-jdk packages in the Ubuntu 10.04 partner repositories. After a bit of googling I found a couple of posts (below) that show the reasons why.
OpenJdk is succeeding the sun jdk as the official Java 7 implementation and due to licensing issues has pulled the license for OS distributors. That's great news for OpenJdk, but not for my current server setup. It doesn't help me with Java 6 as there are problems with OpenJdk v 6, that stopped us from using it in the first place. Looks like I'll have to dig up a deb package from somewhere and live without updates. :(
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/java-to-be-removed-from-ubuntu-uninst...
https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the
http://programminggems.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/cloud-foundry-install-er...
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more here
http://blog.flexion.org/2012/01/10/updated-sun-java6-packages-for-ubuntu/
http://blog.flexion.org/2012/01/16/install-sun-java-6-jre-jdk-from-deb-p...
http://shuffleos.com/5042/install-sun-java-6-packages-ubuntu-ppa/
Building your own deb package
http://java.dzone.com/articles/building-updated-packages-sun
have you tried using oracle
have you tried using oracle jrockit ? works nicely with ubuntu might actually work with your current server setup
Thanks anon
Thanks anon, I didn't think of that ... I've never used the jrocket JVM, but from what I've seen, it does have some nice features over hotspot. At javaone last year, there was talk of Oracle combining the two. I wonder how that will play out in relation to OpenJDK taking centre stage. I'll give it a try today.