Developing Plugins using OpenJDK?

I'm new to writing plugins for bukkit and I am going to be working on a project that someone else has been maintaining.

My computer is running Ubuntu, which is (still, much to my chagrin,) on an outdated version of Eclipse which breaks if I try to install the oracle jdk. I suspect this is due to the Ubuntu package maintainers packaging Eclipse to fit openjdk, since oracle java can no longer be packaged by linux distribution maintainers.

I would just extract oracle's jdk to its own directory (as opposed to replacing the central openjdk installation,) and add it to eclipse as a java environment, but I don't know if I can do the same for Maven or if Eclipse's Maven integration will pass that environment to Maven.

Has anybody had success compiling plugins using OpenJDK instead of Oracle's proprietary JDK?

 

arpinity3024 I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop and I use Eclipse (the version from the Software Center) with OpenJDK and it works fine

 

I use both javac on the command line and Netbeans to compile my plugins, I've never had an issue. I use OpenJDK on Fedora Linux

 

Good to know, thanks!

Makes my life a lot simpler...