Thanks for the clarification Martijn.  I personally haven't had that
problem, just a bad interaction with a Cisco VPN, which I know Oracle are
already aware of and may have fixed.
On May 7, 2012 5:22 AM, "Martijn Verburg" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ricky,
>
> The OpenJDK is the RI for Java as of Java 7.  However, OpenJDK
> binaries are *not* built and supported by Oracle officially, they
> package their own binaries (which a majority of the world uses). Other
> downstream OpenJDK packagers such as RedHat and Debian build OpenJDK
> binaries (e.g. IcedTea) and I believe provide some nominal support.
>
> Code-wise the two are very, very similar, Oracle only has a couple of
> proprietary pieces on top of the OpenJDK. They generally put bug fixes
> into the OpenJDK first, which then goes into the next update release
> of their binary (e.g. 7u4), however sometimes this is reversed (in the
> case of security bugs especially I think).
>
> If you're experiencing a bug with using Netbeans and the OpenJDK then
> please to report it to bugs DB and/or the appropriate OpenJDK mailing
> list, the two should play nicely together.
>
> For those looking to get into the OpenJDK (especially now that it's
> the RI), see our new Adopt OpenJDK program:
> http://java.net/projects/jugs/pages/AdoptOpenJDK
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
> On 6 May 2012 23:54, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I guess I'm a bit hazy on the distinction between the Oracle JDK and the
> > OpenJDK as of version 7.  I thought that was the version in which they
> were
> > supposed to merge now that the old binary plugs had been rewritten.
> >  Wikipedia seems to alternate between treating them as separate and
> > identical.
> >
> > Oracle still seems to handle OpenJDK, but they accept code contributions
> > from the community.
> >
> > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:08 PM, [email protected]
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I suppose you couldn't really expect Oracle to test Java 7 against
> >> > Netbeans before release. I mean, that would probably involve
> inter-hand
> >> > communication possibly involving lawyers and a table reorg.
> >>
> >> I don't understand that statement. NetBeans 7.1.2 seems to be fine with
> >> Oracle JDK 7u4 on Mac OS X. The problems are with OpenJDK, which is not
> >> handled by Oracle, but by the community, and there has not been an
> official
> >> release of it yet.
> >>
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