Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe23.iad.POSTED!8ad76e89!not-for-mail From: Arved Sandstrom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120313 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Chrome for Android does not support JAVA References: <16106106.159.1334611367345.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcsi9> <4f8cb275$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> In-Reply-To: <4f8cb275$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 48 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsgroups-download.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:18:26 UTC Organization: Public Usenet Newsgroup Access Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:18:25 -0300 X-Received-Bytes: 3130 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13603 On 12-04-16 08:59 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 4/16/2012 6:36 PM, Richard Maher wrote: >> "Lew" wrote in message >> news:16106106.159.1334611367345.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcsi9... >>> Richard Maher wrote: >>>> My issue maybe as simple as jumping the gun on Java7. I thought it has >>>> been >>>> mainstream for yonks but it looks like it's still beta; is that >>>> correct? >>> >>> No. Java 7 was released on 2011-07-07. >> >> Sounds more like it. I came across >> http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java7.xml and seeing Google >> pushing 6.31 >> I got confused. > > Java 6 is still being updated. > > And there are probably still more on Java 6 than on Java 7. > > Arne > Java 7 is the first release of Java that I've had trepidation about moving onto. A number of Java applications I use failed silently on 7: no exceptions, just some commanded operation or the other wouldn't happen. As soon as I pointed them back at 6 the apps worked perfectly OK. I see from release notes that a number of these apps have fixed *something* since last summer that lets them work with Java 7. On the other hand, when I see an application release note that's worded like "this now works with Java 7", and the timing of that note is shortly after a Java 7 update, was it the app that got fixed, or Java? Short of asking each and every one of these application teams what it was that got fixed, which I don't have the time for, I'm assuming that it was Java. I haven't seen a single enterprise customer that my company works with move to Java 7 or express interest in moving onto 7. Given that the new owner of Java didn't come out with a Java 7 capable WebLogic until November 2011 (WebLogic 11g 10.3.6) I don't suppose that anyone who has to deal with Java EE app servers or other middleware can be blamed for being cautious. AHS -- A fly was very close to being called a "land," cause that's what they do half the time. -- Mitch Hedberg