Testing Early Access builds with Real World Applications.

2013-11-11 Thread Rory O'Donnell Oracle, Dublin Ireland
Hi All, I want to ask for your help in testing Early Access builds with real world applications. Early Access binaries built from the JDK 8 code base are available today from Oracle, at http://jdk8.java.net If someone else is regularly making Early Access binaries available for testing as we

Re: Testing Early Access builds with Real World Applications.

2013-11-11 Thread Martijn Verburg
Hi all, For those who lack CI infrastructure to do this, CloudBees has kindly offered up free CI hosting for projects that want to test on the latest Java 8 binaries. Get the details here: https://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/TestingJava8 Cheers, Martijn On 11 November 2013 13:00, Ror

Re: Testing Early Access builds with Real World Applications.

2013-11-11 Thread Martijn Verburg
Oh and I forgot to add that you're more than welcome to add your project to the list that we're tracking on that page, we're at 44 projects at the moment but are hoping to hit the 100 by the end of the year. Cheers, Martijn On 11 November 2013 16:15, Martijn Verburg wrote: > Hi all, > > For th

RE: Re: Testing Early Access builds with Real World Applications.

2013-11-11 Thread Uwe Schindler
Hi Martijn, > Oh and I forgot to add that you're more than welcome to add your > project to the list that we're tracking on that page, we're at 44 > projects at the moment but are hoping to hit the 100 by the end of the year. > > Cheers, > Martijn I tried to add Apache Lucene/Solr to this list,

Re: Testing Early Access builds with Real World Applications.

2013-11-11 Thread Jonathan Gibbons
On 11/11/2013 04:24 PM, Uwe Schindler wrote: We are testing with latest Java 8 builds and random JVM settings like bitness, garbage collector, compressed oops,... and found, as Rory mentioned, many bugs, especially in Hotspot's optimizer leading to data loss in Lucene. Uwe, Have you reported