Re: What is the right Java upgrade path for RHEL 5 users?

On 03/03/2011 10:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Have you or others found OpenJDK to be fully compatible with software
> developed by others using Sun or Oracle published JDK's, or the Sun
> JRE's so common on Windows machines? I'm more of a systems integrator
> than a Java programmer, so I really don't know.
>
I found a failure in my application running OpenJDK that was not present 
using Oracle/Sun's Java. I don't remember where the problem was exactly, 
but somewhere in swing.

I just remember running into a problem at a most inopportune time and 
being unable to spend time figuring it out, I switched back to 
Oracle/Sun's Java, solving the problem.

IMHO, unless Oracle releases the tests to validate a Java implementation 
with favorable open source licensing conditions, we can never have the 
confidence in an open source solution as we won't be able to test it 
ourselves.

Until then I value the non-free spec.

-- DM Smith