Concern about Java 7u40 timeline

[David Holmes]

Sam,

There is a suggested workaround in the bug report:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8017174

is it possible for you to utilise that?

David

On 3/08/2013 3:09 AM, Sam Reid wrote:
> JDK7 Team,
>
> My team expressed concern when I mentioned that the Java 7u40 release
> was being pushed back two weeks to the second week of September.  Our
> software relies on Oracle's Java and Java Web Start to work, so this
> will make it very difficult for fall classes to use our award-winning
> [1] educational materials - used over 40 million times per year. I fear
> they will get a negative impression both of our group and of Oracle
> software.  I know that many steps must be completed to release a new
> update to general availability, but if there is anything that can be
> done to accelerate this timeline it would be appreciated by us and our
> many users.  Additionally, if there is something that we can do to speed
> up the process or help prevent similar issues from happening in a future
> release, please let us know.  One more thing, JDK-8017174 is still not
> listed in the j7u40 features & changes [2] even for build 35 so I am
> still a bit confused about that.
>
> Thanks!
> Sam Reid
> PhET Interactive Simulations
> University of Colorado Boulder
>
> [1] http://thetechawards.thetech.org/the-laureates/stories/1647
> [2]
> http://download.java.net/jdk7u40/changes/jdk7u40-b35.html?q=download/jdk7u40/changes/jdk7u40-b35.html
>