Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe21.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arved Sandstrom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121025 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Oracle Java or Open Java? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsgroups-download.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:09:56 UTC Organization: Public Usenet Newsgroup Access Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:09:55 -0400 X-Received-Bytes: 2355 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19684 On 11/08/2012 01:03 PM, Robert Klemme wrote: > On 11/08/2012 01:22 AM, Arved Sandstrom wrote: >> On 11/07/2012 07:42 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: >>> Last time I remember any discussion of using the Open JDK there was a >>> general opinion that Sun^WOracle Java was still the way to go. >>> >>> Is this still the case? >>> >> I'm willing to give the OpenJDK a shot, especially on OS's where it >> comes by default, but at the first sign of problems I switch to Oracle >> 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. > > Kind regards > > robert 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. 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. 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. AHS