Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Dec 1 09:51:16 UTC 2010


Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:13 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>
>> :
>> If so, then I would leave out the confusing vendor strings from the
>> jdk.release file. Because that isn't what people want to know. And might
>> reintroduce the confusion. The os, arch, version of class library and
>> runtime is what is selected on. Maybe this should be extended with the
>> versions of jaxp, jaxws, corba and langtools that are included.
>
> Ouch. jaxp? jaxws...  Seems like a bigger hole than I wanted to dig. :^(
Probably best to side step that one as it would likely require changes 
anyway once we move to modules.

-Alan.



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