Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Warning, bad Java Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 09:54:25 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <988350a8-29b9-4340-81ca-cf5082dc05c7@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35740 On 10/7/2016 11:32 AM, Eric Douglas wrote: > The JDK download page has 2 versions available, 101 and 102. > Apparently there's a bug in 102 that's not in 101, and the bug report > says it's been fixed but the fix is in the next release which is not > yet available. The download page doesn't say which version to > download, just that 102 has "some new features" which are not in 101, > so I tried the 102 and it's been hanging. > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8161700 Well - that is why Oracle put out the N and N+1 versions. N is the safe choice. N+1 is latest and greatest. I think that in general N+1 are quite safe. But there is a risk. And apparently something slipped into 102. It does probably not help that JNLP is so little used as it is. Less focus. Arne