On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 06:40:54AM -0700, Bryan J Smith wrote: > However, in the absolute "worst case scenario" -- and/or say if Red Hat > wanted to do away with this separate agreement and external dependency > -- this would mean Red Hat would shift to OpenJDK 1.6.0 going forward, > and mark the Sun-Oracle JRE/JDK packages as obsoleted. While this > would be an ideal move for the future, I don't see this happening > unless Red Hat can guarantee 100% API/ABI compatibility. It sounds > like representatives of Oracle are saying this -- although that maybe > just the party line and there are slight ABI/API issues with moving to > the OpenJDK, at least for 1.6.0.
FWIW: Some applications just don't work with OpenJDK (tried with RHEL 6.1's version), like JasperServer (the community version). I don't know the gory details, but I know we tried several things and it just doesn't work (this is also mentioned in the JasperServer forums). I generated the latest Oracle Sun Java SDK package (jpackage with some modifications, as jpackage doesn't seem to be uptodate...) and that works fine. -- -- Jos Vos <[email protected]> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
