Simple way to update java on FC6?

[Ted Roche]

Bruce Labitt wrote:
> I'm trying to get eclipse to run on my box with FC6.  I grabbed a copy 
> of the program from eclipse.org.  It wants a version of java > 1.5 to 
> run.  It seems the repos only have 1.4.2 for FC6.  Anybody know of a 
> repo that may have it?  In the past, I've tried updating java thru the 
> sun site.  I was not successful at all.

I had a terrible time with it back in the FC6 days, until I realized for 
legal reasons Fedora ships GCJ rather than the Sun binary. Changes are 
afoot in the licensing,  but the most recent word on the situation seems 
to be at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaFAQ