On 11/16/2012 4:49 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
Felix: OpenJDK 6 is not the best example here. Starting from OpenJDK 7,
OracleJDK uses exactly the same sources as OpenJDK. So for the most part
they are essentially the same products. However, there are still some
minor differences present, mostly in implementation. E.g. OracleJDK
provides a proprietary font rasterizer whereas OpenJDK relies on the
freetype library for this purpose. Also, OracleJDK includes a deployment
stack to support applet and webstart applications. This code is not
open-sourced currently, but AFAIK the OpenJDK community have their own
alternative implementations for these features.
Just to be clear: I think I shouldn't have added the word "own" here
since Oracle is obviously a member of the OpenJDK community. I just
meant to say that alternative implementations for these features are
provided by other members of the community.
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best regards,
Anthony
On 11/14/2012 11:44 PM, Felix Natter wrote:
"Denis S. Fokin" <[email protected]>
the fix has been pushed in jdk8 workspace.
Is it true that OpenJDK and Oracle JDK have the same source code (minus
some closed source components in the oracle jdk)? How come that
OpenJDK<x> is sometimes uncompatible to JDK<x>? (I remember having
experienced a freemind bug only on OpenJDK, but that was OpenJDK_6_).
