On 04/03/2014 09:33 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Joe Darcy <joe.da...@oracle.com <mailto:joe.da...@oracle.com>> wrote:A broader question this issue raises is why are components like corba built using the book JDK rather than the JDK they are a part of? If we're cross-compiling, the JDK being built may never be executable
But the code in the jdk repository in JDK N is built such that it can use the language features and new libraries of JDK N. In contrast, the code in the corba (and IIRC jaxp and jaxws) repo is restricted to using features in the boot JDK, typically JDK (N-1).
-Joe
