[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris for Java developers?

[Bill Rushmore]

Kristian Rink wrote:
> Amit k. Saha schrieb:
>
>   
>>> Well on a technicality you are right with OpenSolaris 2008.05.  But if you
>>> invoke one command you get everything you need.
>>>       
>> "That said, yes- installing is just a step
>> or two away."
>>     
>
> Yes... and adding to that, I have found that getting a Java development
> environment on OpenSolaris is not any more difficult than doing so on Linux
> or Win32 for that matters: Simply go to java.com, netbeans.org, the
> glassfish site and whatever you need, download the packages, install them
> and get work done. Or do I miss the point here?
>
>
>   

You did miss the point.  On OpenSolaris you type one command:

$ pfexec pkg install java-dev

Then you get the JDK, Netbeans, ANT, etc.  And since all of this is 
coming from the package manager updates are a one step process as well.

Bill