Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support

An anonymous reader writes "The monetization of Java has begun. Sun released the Java 1.6.0_14 JDK and JRE today which include a cool new garbage collector called G1. There is just one catch. Even though it is included in the distribution, the release notes state 'Although G1 is available for use in this release, note that production use of G1 is only permitted where a Java support contract has been purchased.' So the Oracle touch is already taking effect. Will OpenJDK be doomed to a feature-castrated backwater while all the good stuff goes into the new Java SE for Business commercial version?"

Comments

In this day and age of "green" businesses...

[thomasdz]

Shouldn't we have "recycling collection" instead of "garbage collection"?
C'mon guys all those big 1MB and 4MB malloc()s are being shipped over to third world countries to be disassembled into bits and bytes. We should be recycling things HERE.... not throwing them away for Java to come and pick up.

Troll?

[iamhigh]

If you post a troll comment to an article tagged troll, do you get insightful mods?

In Soviet Russia, article trolls you!

Re:Seriously Java?

[__aaclcg7560]

Garbage in, garbage out.

Tony Soprano in charge

[Alzheimers]

Meet Vinny and Guido, my business associates in the waste management business.

You see, it's like this. I gotta eat. My kids gotta eat. Vinny and Guido's families have to eat.

We know where you live. It's a nice place, big houses, fancy cars. You can afford to eat, very well.

You wouldn't your neighboorhood to fall victim to all sorts of garbage dumpers, would you? How about a recycling plant, right next to where you work?

No? Well, I'm sure you'll understand when I say that it is in your best interest to respect our business model. Or else, Vinny and Guido might have to go hungry for a bit. And I assure you, they get very unfriendly when they get hungry.

Capiche?

Re:Tony Soprano in charge

[frank_adrian314159]

That's a real nice production server you got here. It'd be a shame to see something unfortunate happen to it. I mean a server room's a dangerous place, ain' it? You got cables and electricity around and, well... accidents happen, if you know what I mean.

Especially with garbage lyin' around all over your memory. Pipes could get clogged, tables could fill up, processes could meet an untimely demise... you know what I'm talking about.

Now for a very reasonable fee, we can see that your garbage is collected regularly. It's a very small fee, once you think about what could happen if you didn't have folks like us around to help you. We'll see that this very nice production server continues to run in tip-top shape. Yes, our small garbage collection fee could help you avoid all sorts of unpleasantness...

Re:Seriously Java?

[JonTurner]

Write once. Pay everywhere.

Re:Seriously Java?

[Anonymous Coward]

Huh? How are Java and Javascript nearly identical?

They were both slow when they came out, they're both slow now, and they both have a bunch of people saying "oh, but it's faster now!"

Re:Forgive my ignorance WAS:re: Garbage collector?

[Red Flayer]

I ran a complete test suite under Purify, and found 5, yes, five, memory leaks

Five memory leaks!
Ah-ah-ah.

One... two... three... four... five memory leaks!

Ah-ah-ah.

Sorry. I have a toddler at home. I couldn't help counting out loud in a silly voice when you mentioned the number 'five' twice.
br.Now my coworkers are eyeing me even more strangely than usual.

Re:No malloc( )s

[TimeTraveler1884]

Holy crap! That joke cut his head off!

Re:Forgive my ignorance WAS:re: Garbage collector?

[idontgno]

In C++, there are better ways to prevent memory leaks than carefully freeing everything in your destructors (which doesn't work anyhow if your constructor throws an an awkward moment).

You accidentally a few words. You might say you accidentally a grammar exception at an awkward moment.