java -version output for JDK8

[Kumar Srinivasan]

On 7/24/2013 11:13 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> 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.

This was introduced to differentiate between an openjdk build vs. Oracle's
jdk build (with closed). There used to be some make magic which deciphers
what to set.

Kumar

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