Canonical Will Remove Java From Ubuntu

[Deepak Bhole]

* Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> [2011-12-22 05:41]:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:17:15 +0000
> Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 12/21/2011 10:45 PM, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > > On 21.12.2011 18:52, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > >> There really is very little difference between the com.sun.*
> > >> classes in OpenJDK and the proprietary JDK, as far as I know.  Of
> > >> course, I haven't really checked, but...  ;-)
> > > 
> > > So, what is the root cause of (infrequent, but persistent) alarms
> > > about incompatibility between OpenJDK and proprietary JDK?
> > 
> > To know for certain I'd have to trawl all the bug reports, but they
> > seem to boil down to web plugin incompatibilities and assuming a
> > particular layout of the installation.  With regard to the plugin,
> > it's much more compatible now, but we still have occasional problems
> > with proprietary applications that make incorrect assumptions.  It's
> > particularly difficult with banks that have applications we can't even
> > try.  Oh, and we do have bugs sometimes.  ;-)
> 
> At $WORKPLACE I use a Java app (via javaws) - EMC NetWorker Management
> Console - that won't work with OpenJDK (it pops up a username/password
> window as expected but doesn't then pop up the main app window once the
> username+password have been entered), whilst it does work with
> Sun/Oracle java 6 and 7. I would much rather use OpenJDK but I haven't
> a clue how to track down what the problem is, knowing next to nothing
> about java.
> 

Hi Paul,

Is there a bug open for this?

Deepak

> Paul.
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