Replacing gcj on Fedora

Due to licensing issues, Linux distros can’t distribute Sun’s JDK. Instead they use gcj, which in my experience is utterly broken. I just provisioned a new Fedora 7 VPS server today, and as part of getting tomcat and ant installed I needed to replace gcj with Sun’s JDK. Here’s the steps:
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Unit testing Flex

This is part 3 of my exploration into Flex. In part 1 I wrote a simple weather forecast application. In part 2 I refactored the non-UI code into separate ActionScript classes. In this part I discuss unit testing those classes using FlexUnit. In short, FlexUnit allows you to run unit tests from the command line.

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