We have abandoned the HSX model. From JDK 8 one version of Hotspot will be tied to one version of the JDK. This looks like old code that has not been cleaned up.
/Staffan On 24 mar 2014, at 19:13, Peter Levart <peter.lev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 03/24/2014 07:02 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote: >> On Mar 24, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Joel Borggrén-Franck <joel.fra...@oracle.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul, >>> >>> I would guess this is because of the HSX model where we could use the same >>> VM with different majors of the JDK. Would that make sense? >>> >> I was wondering about too, but does that still apply to JDKs 1.4.0, 1.4.1, >> 1.5 and 1.6? >> >> Paul. > This seems very shaky. Couldn't VM find out more reliably what major JDK it > is running with? > > Regards, Peter >