I hate to make the waters deeper and browner but I have been noticing
some suspect behavior with the Blackdown 1.1.7a on the Linux 2.2-pre?
(latest pre6) kernels.
Specifically, thrown exceptions seem to be intermittently causing core
dumps. Unfortunately, when this occurs it is within 3rd party jars for
which I do not have source. I can create a reproducible case causing
core dumps in Javasoft's Project X XML parser for example. A simple XML
syntax violation will cause a core dump. I did not observe this in the
2.1.1?? development kernels.
I only bring this up because it appears that Java 2.0 and Linux kernel
2.2.0 will be released very close to each other and there may very well
be compatibility problems (or not!).
Is anyone else seeing this behavior? Is Blackdown doing parallel
testing on 2.2.0-preX kernels? How will Blackdown release JDK 2.0, for
the Kernel 2.0 or 2.2 or both?? Am I just a worry wart or what?
I can picture these poor Blackdown folks working like daemons to get out
JDK 2.0 on Monday, only to have the 2.2 Linux kernel released on
Tuesday. By Wednesday the mail list fills with "When are you going to
release JDK 2.0 for the latest kernel." Of course each of these will
have 5 responses requesting that not to ask, which have 10 saying well
why not.......
Regards,
Ray Racine
