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Java's New G1 Collector Not For-Pay After All

Posted by kdawson on from the trial-balloon-popped dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As a follow-up to our previous discussion, Sun appears to have quietly edited the Java 6u14 release notes language to say now: 'G1 is available as early access in this release, please try it and give us feedback. Usage in production settings without a Java SE for Business support contract is not recommended.' So does this mean it was all one huge typo? Or was Oracle/Sun tentatively testing the waters to see the community's reaction? In either case it's nice to see Java's back on the right path."

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  1. Not quietly by RPoet · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sun didn't "quietly edit" the release notes; they announced it publicly and appologized for having been unclear (which seems like a bit dishonest, but not quiet).

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    "Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
  2. Slashdot editors don't read slashdot? by argent · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not a change, it was clear in the previous thread that the article was completely misinterpreted. The Slashdot summary made no sense at all once it was pointed out that G1 was GPL+Classpath.

  3. Re:But it could be! by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Informative

    What you just said makes no sense. The whole point of Java is that you don't have to mess with memory management. You've just admitted that you want to invest more time and complexity in building "mini-projects" by switching to C++. Good for learning, but otherwise practically silly if you're a noob, and you've implied that you are.

    As far as Java goes, ignore the command line for now. You don't need it to quickly build decent-performing applications.