Simple way to update java on FC6?

[Bruce Labitt]

Ted Roche wrote:
> 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
>
The JavaFAQ was not terribly encouraging...
All I can say is it is ugly...