Concern about Java 7u40 timeline

[Sam Reid]

I tested the workaround which adds

Logger.getLogger("foo");

in the test case I submitted (see elsewhere in this thread) and it 
appears to solve the problem--thanks for suggesting to test it.  On the 
other hand, constraints in our project would make it expensive and 
difficult to apply this patch to all of our deployed applications, so we 
are still hoping for an early Java 7u40.

Thanks!
Sam Reid
PhET Interactive Simulations
University of Colorado Boulder

On 8/3/2013 5:00 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> 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
>>