Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Fredrik Jonson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java 7 update - release schedule? Date: 10 Oct 2011 07:05:48 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <1vc397dtqm3asn7bevc65b2n7564gbp18a@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net QyH+1NOIUjN3qTkfdb7SLglIg06+KSWF9XAfiXIOcUZPyABRQ= Cancel-Lock: sha1:t7ECCq3ZwYR2hJNwBypW6OApdTA= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8671 In <1vc397dtqm3asn7bevc65b2n7564gbp18a@4ax.com> Roedy Green wrote: > Keep in mind that Open JDK and Oracle JDK are not the same thing. They > will release updates separately. I know they are different things but will they really have completely independent release milestones? I'd expect openjdk to be the base for the oracle release, so that openjdk tags a minor update, and then oracle merges with whatever prorpietary stuff they add to their jdk on top of the openjdk tag, let oracle QA do their thing and then release it as a oracle branded jdk minor update. At least I'd expect that for the normal case for planned jdk updates. Of course security issues may force oracle to introduce extra releases that have not been synchronized with the openjdk ones. Is this not what happens? -- Fredrik Jonson