I am pleased, if that is the right word, to have my conjecture discredited unambiguously.
I am not sure that, given its location within z/OS, [Oracle] Java 7 poses so severe a security threat there as it does in more exposed positions elsewhere. A threat it nevertheless is. --jg On 8/29/12, Staller, Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > IBM JAVA is a port of SUN (ORACLE) JAVA... > > <snip> > 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. > </snip> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
