Here's An Easy Way to Install Sun's Java

After some poking around, I found this page.

Scroll down a little, until you get to How do I download and run this thing? and just follow instructions.

It does take a while. My little netbook took 23 minutes to run the script at a coffeeshop. After that, it took another few to do the

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

sudo apt-get update-java-alternatives sun-java6

Alternatively, the tools right here document and implement the steps to install both Sun's java6 and the whole Android Dev Toolkit, including the SDK and Eclipse.  Using the stuff there won't be faster, but it'll be less typing.

The "HelloWorld.java" in Karim's slide 337 is used by the first test in the subdirectory

sysadmin/setup-java-dev-environment/t/