Initial source code for OpenJDK 6 now available

Brad Wetmore Bradford.Wetmore at Sun.COM
Tue Feb 19 16:35:31 UTC 2008


 > For the readers following along at home.. the answer is "b20" with some
 > changes required to fix a few bugs and revert to (partial) JCK6a
 > conformance.  It also has a different hotspot version than openjdk7,
 > being the hotspot from 6u4.

Plus a few selected changes post b20.  I know several 
security/networking changes were added, plus the inclusion of the crypto 
(JCE) code.

Brad



David Herron wrote:
> 
> 
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
>>>> The initial source code for OpenJDK 6 is now available at
>>>> http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk6
>>>>
>>>> More project and mailing list information available from 
>>>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk6
>>>
>>> Which OpenJDK release is this based on?  b19, or something
>>> earlier?
>>
>> Forget that, I found the answer in an earlier email from you.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew.
> 
> For the readers following along at home.. the answer is "b20" with some 
> changes required to fix a few bugs and revert to (partial) JCK6a 
> conformance.  It also has a different hotspot version than openjdk7, 
> being the hotspot from 6u4.
> 
> - David Herron



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