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Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse

Posted by timothy on from the oopsie dept.

crabel writes "In Java 1.6.0_21, the company field was changed from 'Sun Microsystems, Inc' to 'Oracle.' Apparently not the best idea, because some applications depend on that field to identify the virtual machine. All Eclipse versions since 3.3 (released 2007) until and including the recent Helios release (2010) have been reported to crash with an OutOfMemoryError due to this change. This is particularly funny since the update is deployed through automatic update and suddenly applications cease to work."

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  1. Re:Yes and no... by mysidia · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So if Microsoft gets bought out by Oracle and the User-Agent string of IE6, IE7, and IE8 are immediately updated to be OIE6 7 or 8, respectively, with a surprise critical update..

    You are saying it's the web developers' fault, and not Oracle's, when this poorly conceived change breaks the web and compatibility for IE users?