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Re: Oracle Java or Open Java?

Date 2012-11-19 16:11 -0500
From Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Oracle Java or Open Java?
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On 11/19/2012 3:46 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Arne Vajhøj:
>
>> But for production usage, then getting latest and greatest source
>> and build it is not the same as getting a labelled version with
>> release notes and an expectation that it has passed some testing.
>
> We're talking about OpenJDK.  Building from source is the only option.
> Oracle does not release binaries, and everyone else has various
> patches (system zlib, no crypto restrictions, /usr/lib/jni on the
> search path are pretty much unavoidable).

OpenJDK is not an Oracle product. It is an open source
product hosted on java.net.

And they do have binaries available.

apt-get and yum here http://openjdk.java.net/install/.

Linux and Windows binary here http://jdk7.java.net/java-se-7-ri/.

Arne

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Oracle Java or Open Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-07 23:42 +0000
  Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-07 18:46 -0500
  Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2012-11-07 20:22 -0400
    Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-08 01:38 +0000
    Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-11-08 18:03 +0100
      Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-08 12:32 -0500
        Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2012-11-11 19:00 +0100
          Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-11 19:07 +0000
            Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2012-11-11 21:46 +0100
          Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-11 17:29 -0500
            Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2012-11-19 21:46 +0100
              Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-19 16:11 -0500
      Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2012-11-09 20:09 -0400
        Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-11-11 18:01 +0100
  Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2012-11-09 02:50 +0100

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