OpenJDK 6 and 6u10 features

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Greetings.

OpenJDK 6 build 12 contained ports of bug fixes from a number of 6u10 
component areas (corba, jaxp, jaxws, langtools). [1]  Most changes from 
the core jdk component area of 6u10 were not ported.  The porting effort 
that took place of a relatively small number of bugs to a subset of the 
full OpenJDK code base was still a sizeable effort. [2]  The full set of 
changes made to the core jdk in 6u10 is many times larger with a 
proportionally larger porting cost.  We at Sun do not plan to do a 
wholesale port of those 6u10 features from the core jdk to OpenJDK 6.  
However, over the coming months we will be porting those 6u10 features 
to OpenJDK 7 and we would welcome community assistance in backporting 
appropriate features from OpenJDK 7 to OpenJDK 6.  (These jdk area 
features in 6u10 are separate from plugin and webstart functionality.)

Kelly has made substantial progress in preparing the OpenJDK 6 Mercurial 
repositories and at least trial versions of them should be available 
within a few weeks.

-Joe

[1] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2008-September/000150.html
[2] http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/openjdk_6_logistics_of_partial