I have been told that parts of the IBM JVM does in fact include some Oracle code. This was from a couple of years ago when I was investigating some odd application behavior. I found an Oracle bug report that would explain the behavior. In discussion with IBM support I was told that the bug was in the IBM JVM as well and could only be resolved by Oracle providing a fix, which was unlikely as the bug was several years old. I don't know whether the requirement for Oracle to fix it was due to some licensing thing or what. And I now don't remember what the bug was or what we did about it--but I certainly remember the answer that the IBM JVM includes code from Oracle!
Java 7 is available on the mainframe today. I've only poked at it a little though. But I probably should as I noticed in the zEC12 announcement that all the enhancements for Java are targetted at Java 7, not Java 6. Scott Chapman On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:16:25 -0400, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: >Code-sharing aside, vulnerabilities are implementation-specific; and >code sharing between IBM and ORACLE would be enormously interesting, >not least because of the vanishingly small probability that it would >occur. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
