-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Cris,
On 10/17/18 12:43, Berneburg, Cris J. - US wrote: > Thanks Igal > > mt> OpenJDK is very close to the Oracle JDK these days. I regularly > run mt> Tomcat's unit tests with the latest OpenJDK and have yet to > find an mt> issue that is OpenJDK specific. > > is> I asked Gil Tene about this a couple of weeks ago. Gil is a > co- is> founder of Azul Systems, an OpenJDK committer, and on the > Executive is> Committee of the JCP. My understanding from him is > that there is no is> JDK development outside of the OpenJDK. The > Oracle developers that is> work on the JDK commit directly to > OpenJDK. Oracle might add some is> other things when they package > their edition of the JDK for is> distribution, but the JDK itself > is the same one from OpenJDK. > > Good to know. > > is> The main problem with the rapid release cycle and six month > support is> is that due to late adoption, many of the bugs in a > given Java is> release are only discovered after more than six > months of the release is> date. That means that the free support > will end while bugs and is> vulnerabilities are being discovered, > forcing many organizations to is> pay for support. > > Or frequent Java installations. > > RAMBLE: Too bad there can't be an Apache OpenJRE umbrella project, > with specific Apache OpenJRE [version X] sub-projects, that > maintain JRE [version X]'s indefinitely. One source (Apache) for > all the different JRE's for the Java community at large, rather > than depending on a bunch of different companies. The OpenJRE > source code could pull from the OpenJDK repository. A potential > issue could be back-porting bug fixes from later versions into > earlier ones when the source code base has shifted drastically, > making merges difficult. I know it's not exactly what you meant, but... http://harmony.apache.org/ You could always resurrect that project :) - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - https://www.enigmail.net/ iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAlvIpsAACgkQHPApP6U8 pFioUw/9FjG/PEHYjQq7e47Z0DOUQQBmtkepPKaeCaFSIUVMkE2nIFeqBmbGfSpu iiXgYh4WfjBgoOGd8ZrFmfUNpHRuSK8g1OVM9iteJ9kCIOB0lXpjuQ3Z7i9Y0i9r 4z1b/KA+jzfDnG0AiBDyusio45Lcn2ztMsZA9ITJRvUUDHsjAZkGKhnmeSx5wBl1 RPdQJm4f4AicMJNuVxLedUbra0D2mXxOJtlAmMc05q9l2wvHi7hv1oHYKbJrn2zo 9cu4kjhkAAylJZ2bV3TN7M2cWuoQubdbDzmdRcKYGyEEpryRwOUHENPrOWXbi4xn UHsXZQw9IIVt/TsruqbpFAbqffTHsIfBg34tfLCabXQA6J5vXf7yvQEt5NskyhVp qNj+q1E6lYhAt0WGjR5GS70q5Mt/lMNVuwwGrV15/o1rbxyV96KIelIqdv9XMB6F CCH73KFtdXV0yOPewWszwVRo9VF+IF6TOH5Mg0jefb2ECj2i3op+M0s486Gonhzb wV9+NFHzEyZnCKGnijZdbrNYrQM3Deiq6ykGwcELewRUk164VYRVDY1L7NdUta/A YCcgGLardkmrr6xwkP1P8BnT0t5b9bIxNA+d2JHyKvS4uUmNX7L+zc4xfoTgMAg8 MgTH9pYfl6KfLylKBD709kKm3SSx+eQY7pkDkwTjpN0XMawzvW8= =NliJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
