Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse

[jdarling]

This is just too funny not to share http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/2121259/Oracles-Java-Company-Change-Breaks-Eclipse

Just goes to show you the "power of Java" LOL

- Jeremy

[de_jean_7777]

I never liked Java, but that's just retarded. Somebody out there should be ashamed of himself.

[dazappa]

I don't see why this is a problem. It's developers' fault IMO for relying on some tag that can change; granted, they probably never expected it to.

[jdarling]

I don't see why this is a problem. It's developers' fault IMO for relying on some tag that can change; granted, they probably never expected it to.


I don't hold Oracle at fault at all, but I find it funny that rather than tie to the VM identifier the Eclipse developers thought that using the Company Name (a Windows only field btw) would be a good way to identify the VM.

What I DO find even more amusing, and something I think is a mistake, is that Oracle rolled back the change to the JVM after Eclipse complained that they were broke.

- Jeremy