Openjdk 6 Update versions

[Joe Darcy]

On 02/22/2013 09:49 AM, Phil Race wrote:
> No. OpenJDk6 was forked off JDK7 after we'd done the open source
> work there, and had API changes reverted.
> Also 6-open has a ton of direct fixes and changes that aren't in 
> Oracle JDK and
> probably vice versa .. and its not just fonts - there are other closed 
> parts too.
>
> So they are alike in significant parts of the source, and that they
> pass the JCK for Java SE 6, but the similarity ends shortly thereafter.

That is a correct summary of the situation; more detail:

     "OpenJDK 6 Genealogy,"
     https://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/openjdk_6_genealogy
     (better form of this diagram in slide 10 of 
https://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/resource/OSCON/oscon2011_OpenJDKState.pdf)

     "OpenJDK 6: Logistics of Partial Merge with 6u10,"
https://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/openjdk_6_logistics_of_partial

-Joe

>
> -phil.
>
> On 2/22/2013 9:29 AM, Richard Warburton wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I appreciate that during the Openjdk 6 lifetime it wasn't the reference
>> implementation of Java SE, but is there any correspondence between 
>> tags of
>> openjdk 6 source code and Oracle Update releases?  For example is it
>> possible to say that the jdk6-b25 tag equates to Java 6 Update 31, apart
>> from fonts, midi, webstart, security patches etc?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>    Richard Warburton
>>
>>    http://insightfullogic.com
>>    @RichardWarburto <http://twitter.com/richardwarburto>
>