On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Christoph Maser wrote:
You can't do that with companies shipping broken or non-standard [java] implementations. There's not much reason to continue that now.
I work in a java shop and I really thik you both are wrong. We do some pretty amazing things with it and openjdk in centos (wich I think you were relating to) is working quite well for us.
Check the upstream open bugs on openjdk ... I have a clear reproducer of error and non-conformance with Sun's test suite for conformance, but after doing the count of unaddressed matters, won't be bothering to file it ;(
-- Russ herrold