Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 * The Register

2016-01-28 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 1/28/2016 at 10:40 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: > Thank you for the clarification. For some reason, I had thought > that IBM also had Java for the x86 platforms (Winderz in particular). SUSE currently ships IBM's Java on all our architectures. I believe we're moving towards using openJDK

Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

2016-01-28 Thread Skip Robinson
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Steve Thompson > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 07:40 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [Bulk] Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The > Register > > Thank you for the clarification. For some rea

Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

2016-01-28 Thread Steve Thompson
Thank you for the clarification. For some reason, I had thought that IBM also had Java for the x86 platforms (Winderz in particular). I guess I need to spend brain cells on Java, which I would rather drink than write -- given some of the Java I've had to unwind... Past life at the HAL 9000 fac

Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

2016-01-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-01-28 o 16:01, John McKown pisze: On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Stevet wrote: But doesn't IBM have their own version of Java? And wasn't this why they were not affected by the zero day exploits of Sun & Oracle Java? ​Yes. But IBM's Java in on the IBM side of the world. The non

Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

2016-01-28 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Stevet wrote: > But doesn't IBM have their own version of Java? And wasn't this why they > were not affected by the zero day exploits of Sun & Oracle Java? > ​Yes. But IBM's Java in on the IBM side of the world. The non-support of Java for browser plugins is on t

Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

2016-01-28 Thread Staller, Allan
*NO*. "IBM JAVA" is a port of the "original" But doesn't IBM have their own version of Java? And wasn't this why they were not affected by the zero day exploits of Sun & Oracle Java? Or am I missing something here? This email – including attachments – may contain confidential information. If

Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

2016-01-28 Thread Stevet
But doesn't IBM have their own version of Java? And wasn't this why they were not affected by the zero day exploits of Sun & Oracle Java? Or am I missing something here? Sent from iPhone - small keyboard fat fingers - expect spellinf errots. > On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:42 AM, David Boyes wrote: >

Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

2016-01-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-01-28 o 13:42, David Boyes pisze: Another round of fun with the HMC code coming: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/28/java_plugins_deprecated_in_jdk9/ It's not only HMC (and SE). Nowadays many devices have java-based GUI for administration purposes. Even in mainframe world. Examp

Re: Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

2016-01-28 Thread John McKown
Well, time for IBM to move from Java to maybe JavaScript or Google Go. Or, horrors, I actually have some software which allows me to embed GNU COBOL in a web page, ala PHP. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:42 AM, David Boyes wrote: > Another round of fun with the HMC code coming: > > http://www.theregi

Oracle to kill off Java browser plugins with JDK 9 • The Register

2016-01-28 Thread David Boyes
Another round of fun with the HMC code coming: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/28/java_plugins_deprecated_in_jdk9/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu wit