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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:IT'S ALREADY FIXED!! by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Their fix was lying and claiming that the company is still Sun Microsystems, and you think this isn't still news? As far as I can tell, that is an incredibly shitty work-around and the real problem still exists.

    Of course, the "real problem" isn't that Oracle changed the company field, it's that "Java programmers still continue to use poor programming practices despite layers and layers of 'best practice' crud". Seriously, isn't the great appeal of Java supposed to be that you can avoid shit like this?

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