Java 7 for Fedora 16

Lars Seipel lars.seipel at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 1 13:40:30 UTC 2011


On Monday 01 August 2011 13:49:38 Andrew Haley wrote:

> That's not a Java 7 change, it's a new VM bug.  The real cause is that
> optimizations used in an older VM are enabled by default.  I still think
> we'll have to ship 6 and 7 in parallel.

As far as I know there are fixes for these bugs in OpenJDK, though. It's just 
that Oracle won't deliver them in their distribution of Java before update 2.

Lars


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