Security Patches

[Deepak Mathews]

Hi,

Thank you guys, for all the info. It was really helpful.

Deepak

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Erik Trimble <Erik.Trimble at sun.com> wrote:

> 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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