Testing Early Access builds with Real World Applications.

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

For those who lack CI infrastructure to do this, CloudBees has kindly
offered up free CI hosting for projects that want to test on the latest
Java 8 binaries.

Get the details here:
https://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/TestingJava8


Cheers,
Martijn


On 11 November 2013 13:00, Rory O'Donnell Oracle, Dublin Ireland <
rory.odonnell at oracle.com> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> I want to ask for your help in testing Early Access builds with real world
> applications.
> Early Access binaries built from the JDK 8 code base are available today
> from Oracle,
> at http://jdk8.java.net
>
> If someone else is regularly making Early Access binaries available for
> testing as well,
> feel free to share their location in a reply to this message
>
> We're looking to broaden our test coverage, to catch possible
> "showstoppers " before
> we release.  An effective way to do that is to leverage the tests of other
> products that
> use Java in real world applications.
>
> In the past couple of weeks I have been working with Wilfly & Apache
> Lucene. They
> have agreed to test our latest builds and report issues.
>
> As it happens both groups started testing with b109 , when they moved to
> b111 they
> both reported the following issue :
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8026394
> This issue was resolved in b114 , testing by Apache Lucene & RedHat Wilfly
> confirmed
> the fix.
>
> If you are willing to regularly run your tests with EA builds and report
> back if there are
> any issues we would love to hear from you on this mailing list. If you
> find issues, please
> report them through bugs.sun.com (unless you already have an account in
> the JDK Bug
> System), and post the incident ID from the confirmation e-mail to this
> list.
>
> I am sure early warning of compatibility problems or potential regressions
> is useful to
> all of us. Let me know if you are interested, we really appreciate your
> help!
>
> Rgds,Rory
>
> --
> Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
> Quality Engineering Manager
> Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>
>
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