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Oracle Removes Java Signatures, Breaking Webstart

Posted by timothy on from the is-this-your-homework-larry dept.

sproketboy writes "It seems Oracle has decided in their infinite wisdom to remove digital signatures from the Java projects that they put into the open source community. Of course this breaks any application out there depending on Java Webstart using these libs. Looks like Java3D and JAI are currently affected — probably other APIs are as well. Oh Oracle! What are we supposed to do with you?"

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  1. Oracle only said they'd keep it open source by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oracle only said they'd keep it open source. They never said they'd let you use it.

  2. Re:Die! by ByOhTek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are plenty of good Java programmers. Yes there are more crap java programmers. But I can't think of any language for which that ISN'T true.

    --
    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
  3. Re:Shot themselves in the foot by headLITE · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you have an HR webstart app that loads libraries from random servers on the internet, you probably deserve what you get...

  4. Serves'em right by Meneth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Serves JavaWebStart coders right for relying on third-party, online systems.

    In that vein, one can consider what would happen if Google suddenly stopped hosting JQuery: about half of the javascript-using websites in the world would stop working. :)