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Java 6 EOL'd By Oracle

Posted by timothy on from the this-too-shall-pass dept.

Tmack writes "Not completely unexpected, Java6 has reached EOL. This tidbit shows up in Oracle's Java6 FAQ page, recommending everyone update to Java7: 'Oracle no longer posts updates of Java SE 6 to its public download sites. All Java 6 releases up to and including 6u45 have been moved to the Java Archive on the Oracle Technology Network, where they will remain available but not receive further updates. Oracle recommends that users migrate to Java 7 in order to continue receiving public updates and security enhancements.' Apple just pushed its update 16 which is Java6u51, likely to be one of their last Java6 updates."

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  1. Hating Oracle by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hating Oracle just feels right. All the pointless rage we deliver to Microsoft for terrible, greedy business decisions, plus they kill popular open source projects. It's like being young and in love, except the opposite of that.

    1. Re:Hating Oracle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Oracle still support Java 6 - if you pay through the nose. They just no longer provide free of charge updates to the non-paying public.

      Java is available free of charge. Java 6 is from 2006. Why should any for profit company provide endless free of charge updates for free of charge software?

      Does the Mozilla Foundation still ship free of charge updates for Firefox 2.0?
      Does Apple still provide free of charge updates for Mac OS X 10.5 (and that actually wasn't free of charge)
      Does Adobe still provide free of charge updates for Flashplayer 9 (say, fix the 40,000 security bugs they claim to have found in it)

    2. Re:Hating Oracle by devman · · Score: 5, Informative

      Since JDK6, Oracle Java is based on OpenJDK. Unless your using one of the specific features oracle tweaks or adds you should be fine.

  2. Re:Typical Oracle - Enterprise sheds tear by medv4380 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you have any Idea how old Java 6 is? It's not a question of keeping two version active at once. It's about it's age more than anything. Java 6 was released in 2006. It's not like their EOLing it after 2 year. Support has to end some time, and 7 years is longer than I would have kept it.

  3. Re:Typical Oracle - Enterprise sheds tear by _xeno_ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you have any Idea how old Java 6 is?

    Do you have any idea how new Java 7 is? It's just about two years old, but that makes it sound older than in reality, because for the first year it was out Sunacle were very clear that it was still "beta quality" and that developers should stick with Java 6. It wasn't until about a year ago that Java 7 really "rolled out" as the replacement for Java 6.

    I can't remember when IT first allowed Java 7 onto our desktops, but I think it was less than a year ago. Even then, it's still not the "official" version of Java because there's some IT-related software that can't run on Java 7. Not to mention that some of the software I work with also can't run on Java 7 due to JNI incompatibilities. (Man I wish we could ditch that, but I didn't write the component that uses that component, so...)

    In any case, no matter how old it is, Java 7 still isn't quite ready to replace Java 6. Especially under Mac OS X, thanks to the transition between Apple and Oracle supporting Java. Although I don't know who's really to blame for that one, Apple or Oracle, but they can both take the blame as far as I care.

    The point is that I still use Java 6 on a day-to-day basis, and it's not from lack of trying to move to Java 7.

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  4. Not a big deal... by BenSchuarmer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    what bugs me is that they keep trying to get me to install the Ask toolbar every time I update Java 7.