Installing Java 7

In the past I'd tried installing the Java 7 JDK but the Installer would never successfully complete.

I eventually got it to install by downloading the combined JDK & NetBeans Installer.

I still don't know why this installation problem exists. A quick search on the Internet doesn't provide many answers as most people who are encountering these problems are using Linux rather than Windows.

New Java Version released

A new version of Java has been released & can be downloaded from here. As I occasionally write programs in Java I downloaded the JDK 6 Update 12 version.

Processing

Processing is an Open Source programming language that I first heard about in this post on the Ubuntu forum. You can download it from here, I recommend you get the Java version even if you've got a JDK already installed.

Java for OpenSUSE

Need a JDK or JRE for OpenSUSE? Then look here.

Java JDK for Ubuntu

If you want to install the Java JDK for Ubuntu just type the following in a terminal.

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts