<AWT Dev> Bug 7130662/7165729

[Anthony Petrov]

On 11/16/2012 4:49 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> Felix: OpenJDK 6 is not the best example here. Starting from OpenJDK 7, 
> OracleJDK uses exactly the same sources as OpenJDK. So for the most part 
> they are essentially the same products. However, there are still some 
> minor differences present, mostly in implementation. E.g. OracleJDK 
> provides a proprietary font rasterizer whereas OpenJDK relies on the 
> freetype library for this purpose. Also, OracleJDK includes a deployment 
> stack to support applet and webstart applications. This code is not 
> open-sourced currently, but AFAIK the OpenJDK community have their own 
> alternative implementations for these features.

Just to be clear: I think I shouldn't have added the word "own" here 
since Oracle is obviously a member of the OpenJDK community. I just 
meant to say that alternative implementations for these features are 
provided by other members of the community.

--
best regards,
Anthony

> On 11/14/2012 11:44 PM, Felix Natter wrote:
>> "Denis S. Fokin" <denis.fokin at oracle.com>
>>> the fix has been pushed in jdk8 workspace.
>>
>> Is it true that OpenJDK and Oracle JDK have the same source code (minus
>> some closed source components in the oracle jdk)? How come that
>> OpenJDK<x> is sometimes uncompatible to JDK<x>? (I remember having
>> experienced a freemind bug only on OpenJDK, but that was OpenJDK_6_).