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Re: Oracle Java or Open Java?

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From	Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject	Re: Oracle Java or Open Java?
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On 10.11.2012 01:09, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 11/08/2012 01:03 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> On 11/08/2012 01:22 AM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

>>> JDK. And every so often I have had problems with the OpenJDK.
>>
>> What kind of issues were those?  I am asking because OpenJDK makes up by
>> far the largest part of OracleJDK AFAIK.  It would be interesting to
>> learn of the differences via those issues.

> I hesitate to say, Robert. I've had issues with *every* JDK I've used in
> close to 15 years. Certainly I've had sporadic problems with all of
> OpenJDK 6, OpenJDK 7 but also Oracle/Sun JDK 7, so I can't really pin it
> down.

Too bad.

> I can only say with assurance that I've definitely had some OpenJDK 6/7
> problems that were solved by switching to Oracle JDK counterparts,
> because that sticks in my mind, and ISTR that these handful of problems
> were related to GUI apps, so sometimes a silent failure to launch using
> OpenJDK where the app would run properly using Oracle JDK.

So you are saying that issues were mostly UI related.

> FWIW I do use OpenJDK 7 quite often, depending on OS or what software I
> am using, and it's very rare that there are problems these days.

Thank you for the reply!

Kind regards

	robert

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Thread

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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