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. > >> > >> -- > >> Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > >> Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > >> java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > >> [email protected] > >> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "The Java Posse" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
