Security Patches
Erik Trimble
Erik.Trimble at Sun.COM
Mon Dec 7 02:34:32 PST 2009
Deepak Mathews wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I am new to this.
> Sorry for bothering you.
>
> Is there a support channel for OpenJDK?
> If a fix is available for SunJDK, is it available for OpenJDK too?
>
> Sorry, I couldn't find any support channel on that page.
>
> Thanks.
> Deepak
>
>
(note, I'm talking here about OpenJDK 7 and it's relative, SunJDK 7)
SunJDK is based on the code in the OpenJDK repositories. We add a few
things that can't be made public. In addition, there are some binary
plugs which we can't make available as source code.
So, from your perspective, SunJDK is a SUPERSET of OpenJDK - it contains
ALL the code in OpenJDK.
OpenJDK now constitutes about 95% of the codebase for SunJDK. Fixes
for common code go into the OpenJDK repositories, and are thus fixed at
the same time. Only security issues which affect the less than 5% of
the closed code in SunJDK aren't immediately available for OpenJDK.
Strictly speaking, since OpenJDK 7/SunJDK 7 isn't a released product
yet, there is no "official" support available. This list consists of
the best available information about OpenJDK development.
--
Erik Trimble
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