method handles and call sites listed as part of Java SE 6 Update 18?!

[Christian Thalinger]

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:54 +0100, Attila Szegedi wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> just noticed something strange. Java SE 6 Update 18 Release Notes at <http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u18.html> list the following issues as being fixed for that release:
> 
> 6655638  	hotspot 	compiler2 	dynamic languages need method handles
> 6655646  	hotspot 	compiler2 	dynamic languages need dynamically linked call sites 
> 
> What does this mean? Certainly it doesn't mean we suddenly got invokedynamic JVM support in Java 6, does it?

No.  As the release notes say:

"6u18 includes version 16.0 of the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine."

HotSpot Express is shipped with JDK 6 and 7 and that's why HotSpot
contains JSR 292 code.  But the JDK does not.

-- Christian