As I recall, corba builds do some code generation with idlj, which is in corba I think, so a boot jdk version of idlj would need to be built and run with the boot jdk, then you could build everything with the new jdk. Or so I recall..
-kto On Apr 3, 2014, at 11:54 PM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Joe Darcy <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? >>> >>> As Alan said, for historical reasons only. If you wanted to actually > compile corba/jaxp/jaxws using the new jdk, it would be trivial to change > the build system to do so, since we already do so with nashorn. > > //Fredrik
