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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."

3 of 397 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Great! by gbutler69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    s/make me make/made me make/

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  2. Pay for support, or else... by LostCluster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a critical flaw in the "pay once, own forever" software model. If the company that supplied your app uses this field, assumes it'll never change, and then goes out of business or move on to different products, you're in big trouble right now. You've got to pay for support, or your vendor might not be there when you need them in a situation like this.

  3. Oracle +1 by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oracle doing the right thing for the right reason, AND getting credit for it.. Who would have imagined?

    Was that a pig i just saw fly by my window?

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