How does one start JAVA?

[David Rush]

Chris:

As Charles said, you don't really "start Java".  Once you have the JRE 
(Java Runtime Environment) installed, you can use it to run compiled Java 
programs.  So first you have to get some Java compiled program.  The JRE by 
itself won't do much for you.

If you want to write your own Java programs, you need the Java SDK 
(software development kit).  With that, you can write your own Java 
programs, then compile and run them.

David

At 07:43 AM 8/6/2002 -0500, Charles Mallahan wrote:
>Chris Hoelscher wrote:
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>>I know this has to be a stupid question, but I'm at a loss.  I've gone
>>to Sun and downloaded the JRE RPM package, installed it, and followed
>>the instructions.  However, when I point my Netscape to
>>file:/usr/java/jre1.3.1_04/ControlPanel.html I get an error dialog that
>>says
>>"Exec of /usr/bin/i386/native_threads/java_vm failed: 2
>>"Plugin: Plugin is not enabled or Java VM process has died.
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>>What I don't see is any java anything active in 'ps aux', and I don't
>>recall any instructions to start java.  Any "oh, duh" comments for me?
>>
>>Thanks -
>>Chris.
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>No "oh, duh" but you don't "start" java.  I prefer Mozilla on all 
>platforms, because now post 1.0 you just copy "a file or two" to get a 
>plugin working.  What distro are you using?  Also the JRE is the run time 
>environment, I also download and install the SDK, and create the 
>$JAVA_HOME variable.
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