Thursday March 13, 2008 Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog
Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog
Thursday March 13, 2008 There are now OpenJDK 6 packages for the upcoming Hardy Heron Unbuntu Universe and Lilian has announced that OpenJDK 6 will be a part of Fedora 9.
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Is this production ready or more ready than icedtea ?
Posted by 189.155.220.110 on March 13, 2008 at 07:18 PM PDT #
Is this production ready or more ready than icedtea ?
Posted by leonel on March 13, 2008 at 07:30 PM PDT #
And does it have a more functional browser plugin? My web-banking doesn't work with the current icedtea one.
Posted by Anders Norgaard on March 14, 2008 at 08:43 AM PDT #
cool,
I hope there will be a update5 build available before we have stable openjdk builds. Newest java version is currently update3 for ubuntu...
Posted by mbien on March 14, 2008 at 03:51 PM PDT #
Leonel,
The source for OpenJDK 6 is a "backward branch" from JDK 7, around build 20. For the libraries, nearly all of the new APIs have been removed, but the bug fixes stayed in. Except for a patch to build with gcc 4, the JVM sources are the same as in the latest 6 update release, 6u5.
Posted by Joe Darcy on March 14, 2008 at 09:13 PM PDT #
Anders,
The source from Sun does not currently include a browser plugin; the browser plugin is added by the distros as part of the IcedTea project. I'm not tracking the status of that plugin closely, but I know it is under active development.
Posted by Joe Darcy on March 14, 2008 at 09:17 PM PDT #
So openjdk is produccion ready great
Posted by leonel on March 19, 2008 at 01:55 PM PDT #
Leonel,
A few caveats, there are a handful of areas where the libraries of the production JDK and OpenJDK differ and out of the box OpenJDK 6 does not pass all of the JCK tests for Java SE 6. In particular, OpenJDK is currently missing a midi sound synthesizer and certain profiles for the color management system. Also, OpenJDK does not have SNMP support at the moment. Resolving such issues remains a goal of the project.
Posted by Joe Darcy on March 19, 2008 at 03:57 PM PDT #