* Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-12-22 05:41]: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:17:15 +0000 > Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
