jtreg testing integrated

Mark Reinhold mr at sun.com
Thu May 22 14:37:18 PDT 2008


> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 23:33:25 +0200
> From: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>

> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 14:14 -0700, Joe Darcy wrote:
>> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>>> It depends on the version and the distribution. IcedTea6 now calls
>>> itself OpenJDK, but IcedTea7 calls itself IcedTea. Ubuntu has a patch to
>>> return "Java(TM)" here. And we might actually might want to make that
>>> the default.
>> 
>> I doubt Sun's lawyers would be happy with that!
> 
> haha :) But well, what can you do if it is a feature string actual
> applications test against. More importantly soon we will see derivatives
> of pass the TCK and hopefully they will then all be considered Java(TM)
> anyway.

If actual applications test for this string (ugh!) then we can likely
convince Sun lawyers that returning "Java(TM)" is justified.

- Mark



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