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Re: updates and so on

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On 21/11/13 01:54, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    Recently, Java had to be upgraded often due to several
>    security issues and also the procedure used to update Java
>    on the clients was subject to discussions. I just read this
>    text that was written about 1995 or 1996 in an early Java
>    whitepaper:
>
>        »Operating on multiple platforms in heterogeneous
>        networks invalidates the traditional schemes of binary
>        distribution, release, upgrade, patch, and so on. To
>        survive in this jungle, the Java language must be
>        architecture-neutral, portable, and dynamically adaptable.«
>
>    But it seems that Java today still relies on that same
>    »traditional schemes of binary distribution, release,
>    upgrade, patch, and so on«. (The »jungle« of course was part
>    of a text that often is given as the source for the choice
>    of the name »Java«.)
>

I think you are not making the distinction between Java the language (including programs written in the language), and 
Java the JVM which actually executes the compiled byte-code.

The above quote I think refers to Java the language, which is still "architecture-neutral, portable, and dynamically 
adaptable". What does rely on, and has always relied on, "traditional schemes of binary distribution..." is the JVM. The 
regular binary distribution of updates/patches etc are fixes to the JVM, not the language.

-- 
Nigel Wade

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