[arch-general] Java 7 is now in [community-testing] and needs testing.
Hi, Java 7 is getting released on July 28th so I thought it would be a good time to let users test it out. I have just pushed jre/jdk 7 build 147 into [community-testing] so that users can have a month in advance to report bugs, and notify upstream projects if they are incompatible with java 7. You should be able to install jre/jdk 7 without the need to enable any of the testing repos. I have tested it on my computer with a couple of browser games which seem to work fine. The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the specific problem can be tracked here: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7 Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take notice. A summary of the changes that come with Java 7: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ Bugs that are not packaging bugs should be submitted to http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/ The Java 7 feedback forum is located at http://www.java.net/forums/jdk/java-se-snapshots-project-feedback?force=259 Cheers!
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Java 7 is getting released on July 28th so I thought it would be a good time to let users test it out. I have just pushed jre/jdk 7 build 147 into [community-testing] so that users can have a month in advance to report bugs, and notify upstream projects if they are incompatible with java 7. You should be able to install jre/jdk 7 without the need to enable any of the testing repos.
I have tested it on my computer with a couple of browser games which seem to work fine.
The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the specific problem can be tracked here: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7 Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take notice.
A summary of the changes that come with Java 7: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/
Bugs that are not packaging bugs should be submitted to http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
The Java 7 feedback forum is located at http://www.java.net/forums/jdk/java-se-snapshots-project-feedback?force=259
Cheers!
Hi, Thanks for your efforts! I'm sending this as a kind of sign-off :) I've tested it with my home banking, which uses a Java applet. It worked as well as the old version. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the specific problem can be tracked here: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7 Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take notice.
Replacing the 32-bit libraries with their 64-bit copies, and running minecraft with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/java/jre/lib/amd64" makes it work properly here.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the specific problem can be tracked here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7
Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take notice.
Replacing the 32-bit libraries with their 64-bit copies, and running minecraft with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/java/jre/lib/amd64" makes it work properly here.
Awesome! I'm now fully on java 7 :) I would like to hear about anyone else's experience also which will give me some more feedback. Cheers!
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:47, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com>wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the specific problem can be tracked here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7
Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take notice.
Replacing the 32-bit libraries with their 64-bit copies, and running minecraft with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/java/jre/lib/amd64" makes it work properly here.
Awesome! I'm now fully on java 7 :)
I would like to hear about anyone else's experience also which will give me some more feedback.
Cheers!
Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but is this about the binary jre/jdk releases or the open source openjdk. I currently have openjdk6 (and icedtea-web) installed in my system (x86_64) but did not find an equivalent package for Java 7. Thanks in advance. Regards. Keshav
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM, KESHAV P.R. <skodabenz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:47, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the specific problem can be tracked here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7
Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take notice.
Replacing the 32-bit libraries with their 64-bit copies, and running minecraft with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/java/jre/lib/amd64" makes it work properly here.
Awesome! I'm now fully on java 7 :)
I would like to hear about anyone else's experience also which will give me some more feedback.
Cheers!
Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but is this about the binary jre/jdk releases or the open source openjdk. I currently have openjdk6 (and icedtea-web) installed in my system (x86_64) but did not find an equivalent package for Java 7. Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Keshav
These are the binary jre/jdk releases.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM, KESHAV P.R. <skodabenz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:47, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote: Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but is this about the binary jre/jdk releases or the open source openjdk. I currently have openjdk6 (and icedtea-web) installed in my system (x86_64) but did not find an equivalent package for Java 7. Thanks in advance. ... These are the binary jre/jdk releases.
But the reference implementation from Oracle will be based on OpenJDK http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto < denisfalqueto@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM, KESHAV P.R. <skodabenz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:47, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote: Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but is this about the binary jre/jdk releases or the open source openjdk. I currently have openjdk6 (and icedtea-web) installed in my system (x86_64) but did not find an equivalent package for Java 7. Thanks in advance. ... These are the binary jre/jdk releases.
But the reference implementation from Oracle will be based on OpenJDK
http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the
-- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad?
------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------
have you read the comments on that page? http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the#comment-130790... I couldn't find a great link that explains it, but the main diffs are that jre/jdk provide proprietary extensions and provide better a better runtime experience. Note that reference implementation only means that it is a correct implementation of a specification and does not mean anything else.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
But the reference implementation from Oracle will be based on OpenJDK
http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the
-- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad?
------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------
have you read the comments on that page? http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the#comment-130790...
I couldn't find a great link that explains it, but the main diffs are that jre/jdk provide proprietary extensions and provide better a better runtime experience. Note that reference implementation only means that it is a correct implementation of a specification and does not mean anything else.
Good point. I didn't read all the comments because almost all of them were just bashing Oracle for not supporting Apache Harmony. I've never noticed the difference between the Reference Implementation and the actual jre/jdk released by Sun/Oracle before. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------
On 28 June 2011 23:41, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Java 7 is getting released on July 28th so I thought it would be a good time to let users test it out. I have just pushed jre/jdk 7 build 147 into [community-testing] so that users can have a month in advance to report bugs, and notify upstream projects if they are incompatible with java 7. You should be able to install jre/jdk 7 without the need to enable any of the testing repos.
I have tested it on my computer with a couple of browser games which seem to work fine.
The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the specific problem can be tracked here: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7 Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take notice.
A summary of the changes that come with Java 7: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/
Bugs that are not packaging bugs should be submitted to http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
The Java 7 feedback forum is located at http://www.java.net/forums/jdk/java-se-snapshots-project-feedback?force=259
Cheers!
It works fine with Intellij IDEA and Free Rapid Downloader. Lukas
participants (5)
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Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
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Jan Steffens
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KESHAV P.R.
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Lukáš Jirkovský
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Thomas Dziedzic