Java 7 screwup

[Mario Torre]

2011/8/5 John Yeary <johnyeary at gmail.com>:
> As with any major release, there are bound to be bugs. However, the OpenJDK
> project announced the release and freeze on the code for what would become
> JDK 7. No one reported any major issues prior to launch. The folks on Apache
> Lucene/Solr projects could have tested in advance of release and found these
> issues. This may have prevented the on-time release.
>
> I am not blaming the Apache folks, or Oracle. As with any new software, you
> need to test it. I have not been affected by the bug(s) reported, and can
> happily continue on my computing way. The workarounds have been released,
> use them until a fix is out, or alternatively wait and use JDK 6. As noted
> in the article, these JVM options are disabled in 6 and the bug was present.
>
>
> No one noticed this previously so I surmise that it is a mountain-mole hill
> issue.
>
> John

I also think this is "mountain-mole hill" and in general agree with you.

I don't think that Apache should be responsible for testing OpenJDK bugs though.

This specific issue seems to be quite tricky to get but I wonder if
this should not have been spotted by the TCK?

Cheers,
Mario
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