It seems like with all the unit test (and unit test framework) buzz and the ubiquity of virtualization, there would be money to be made selling an online compatibility test service.<div><br></div><div>You could upload your unit tests to the service along with the latest implementations, and it would respond with a report displaying a compatibility matrix with your unit tests and the various incarnations of the JVM.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I suspect the annoying licenses that some JVMs have would make such a business impractical.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com" target="_blank">JLightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You can install Java 6 (a/k/a 1.6) from Oracle’s (Solaris) Java site if it is no longer in the Fedora repositories. You can leave Java 7 (a/k/a 1.7) as the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Note that Java 6 is EOL and no vendors including RedHat are doing any further bug or security fixes to it though it is still in the RHEL5 repositories. It
is not in the RHEL6 repositories so we had to do the above for one of our older apps running on RHEL6.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 02, 2013 3:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ale] Fedora 19 and Java 7<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I just installed F19 on my work system, and am trying to run a java app from the command line. I have run it before on F17/Java 6 without issue, but cannot now.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I keep getting java MalformedURL and UnknownHost exceptions, and have done all that I was able to find online about such errors (/etc/hostname, /etc/sysconfid/network,
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