<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><div>I'm back with another stab at a webrev and modified proposal.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></span></div><div><a href="http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/jdk7-build-eclipse/webrev/">http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/jdk7-build-eclipse/webrev/</a></div><div><br></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">The above change creates a small text file called "release" at the top of the</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">jdk or jre install image </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">with some very basic values about that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">install image.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">For example, on Solaris 10 X86 the file would contain the 4 lines:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">JAVA_VERSION="1.7.0"<br>OS_NAME="SunOS"<br>OS_VERSION="5.10"<br>OS_ARCH="i586"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">They are not properties and don't look like properties.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">It doesn't contain trademark names or company names.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">It unfortunately does not identify the specific VM, but it does provide some basic</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">information about what the jdk image is and where it can be used.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">To solve the original Eclipse issue really requires a similar file delivered by the</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">VMs shipped with the JDK. That will need to be pursued with a different CR.</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">-kto</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div></body></html>