Re: [Exist-open] Documentation correction: Exist supports OpenJDK?

[Anton K. <ak...@de...>]

Hi Dannes,

>
> The Oracle Java will be leading..
>

eXist is an application server and database - which can be primary 
classified as server software.

In the server market, and especially in that target segment, where is 
possible to be deployed non-MS, non-propriety technologies (which 
unfortunately is far away from the whole server market, because of the 
MS leadership in the small companies with semi-professional IT 
departments) the leading OS is Linux, and more precisely the leading 
Linux distributions (RedHat/CentOS/Fedora, SuSE/OpenSuSE, Ubuntu/Debian).

All these distributions are build on top of their packaging systems, and 
in all of them default (and/or the only 1.6) Java package is OpenJDK, 
which not seems to be changed in the near future.

In my opinion, right direction is not to force our users to install non 
packaged software (there are bunch of pragmatic reasons, plus laziness 
of Linux admins, which are used to install java 1.6 with "yum install 
java-1.6.0"), but instead, to evaluate possibilities to 
package/update-packages of eXist components and eXist itself for the 
leading Linux distributions, so that someday Linux admins to be able to 
install eXist (and java) with the single "yum install exist-db".

Kind regards,
Anton

P.S. eXist is an XML database, and most of the bits needed to provide 
Linux packages (as example in RPM RedHat/SuSE families to build a 
package from source, all you need is a single .spec file, roughly 
containing version, dependencies and ant invocation) are present in the 
xml form (ant/maven). May be, we can help to authors of eXist 
dependencies or their respective distributions-maintainers to 
prepare/update their packages.