icedtea use

[Mario Torre]

Il giorno lun, 29/10/2007 alle 12.19 +0000, Andrew Haley ha scritto:

> Security updates are more a matter for the distros than for IcedTea
> itself, which is distributed as source.  I'm sure that Fedora will
> handle security updates to IcedTea in just the same way as security
> updates to anything else.  Bear in mind that IcedTea has not been
> tested for Java compatibility.

I would also add that IcedTea is based on a not finalized version of
OpenJDK. This means that even if IcedTea is shown to be 100% compatible
with OpenJDK, the API can change at any update, so I suggest to not rely
on 1.7 methods and features.

Mario
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