java -version output for JDK8

[David Holmes]

On 24/07/2013 5:05 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It was just brought to my attention that the output of java -version is
> different on builds of jdk8 when compared to jdk7 [1]:
>
> # java -version
> openjdk version "1.8.0-internal"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-internal-0)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Zero VM (build 25.0-b20-internal, interpreted mode)
>
> # java -version
> java version "1.7.0_25"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (fedora-2.3.10.3.fc19-ppc64)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Zero VM (build 23.7-b01, interpreted mode)
>
> OpenJDK 7 identifies itself as "java version...." while OpenJDK 8
> identifies itself as "openjdk version...". Is this intentional? Will
> this be changed after Java 8 is finalized?

It comes from  common/autoconf/version-numbers which has:

LAUNCHER_NAME=openjdk

which seems to be a mistake to me as obviously the launcher name is not 
openjdk.

???

David
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> Thanks,
> Omair
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987769
>