java development and administrative rights

Hey folks. I don't know much about java, which leads to having the

following issue.

I am a computer administrator for a school in which some students take

a java programming course. I am being told that these students need

administrative rights to the machine in order to run the program,

compile anything they have made etc.

Is this true, or do they just need rights to a certain folder? I'm not

really keen on a bunch of 15-17 year old kids running amok in my

computer labs with full admin rights.

They all have network drives on the server. is there any way to run it

from there?

Thanx in advance for any light shed on this.

[713 byte] By [cabbie13a] at [2007-11-26 18:13:16]