Do NetBeans and Eclipse (including most of extensions) run on OpenJDK without original Sun JRE/JDK?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2983217
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Can I install just OpenJDK without proprietary Sun JRE/JDK and use NetBeans and Eclipse without significant disadvantages?
Solution
Yes you can. I'm using NetBeans with OpenJDK in Linux.
OTHER TIPS
You can run just OpenJDK or just Sun JDK and I'm pretty sure you can also run them side by side if you'd like with eclipse and/or netbeans. In my opinion, I think it would be best to go for Sun but if you'd really prefer to have OpenJDK instead, I believe it's pretty solid.
OpenJDK is supposed to be fully compatible with Sun's JDK (in fact it is Sun's JDK for the most part, with the proprietary parts replaced by open source software).
Almost all Java software, including NetBeans and Eclipse, runs without any problems on OpenJDK.
