Actually, I do think the Ubuntu solution is more reasonable. I installed sun-java6 for precisely the use case mdeslaur described, and I'm pretty sure that the e

Actually, I do think the Ubuntu solution is more reasonable. I installed sun-java6 for precisely the use case mdeslaur described, and I'm pretty sure that the errors from a missing JDK will be much more clear and noticeable than the subtler (but still work-killing) ones from OpenJDK.