Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:01:31 +0100 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net gzQRub/ecfz5bFEbu6WHxAaT49OLGr/ytfOskVaHNDCieScyrVHctP6idA0w73F38= Cancel-Lock: sha1:GdCsV5WuoBjorzfsd1MHOk4sKwI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19696 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 -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/