JDK15 Linux and Solaris

[robnugent]

Anyone had any luck with the new JDK15 alpha and JOGL ?

( http://java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/j2sdk150_alpha/ )

I got it working on Linux, although only with some extra LD_LIBRARY_PATH bodgery (for libmawt.so) that isn’t needed on 1.4.

On Solaris, the JVM just blows up, and I can’t tell if it’s a JVM or JOGL issue:

#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
#  SIGBUS (0xa) at pc=0xf85b87cc, pid=29145, tid=1
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0-beta-b31 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libX11.so.4+0x387cc]  XVisualIDFromVisual+0x4
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid29145.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#
Abort(coredump)

[gregorypierce]

FYI, you CANNOT discuss JDK1.5 outside of Sun’s mailing list. There are people from here who hang out there, but discussing the NDA’d product HERE is breaking the license by which you have it.

[swpalmer]

How do you get on that mailing list?

[robnugent]

Gregory,

If you follow the link I posted this appears to be a public alpha of JDK 1.5 downloadable under much the same conditions as JDK1.4.2. I’'ve been back through the download process and I can’t see anything I can construe as an NDA, and I certainly can’t see anything preventing me discussing it outside of a mailing list, the existence of which I am unaware.

If I’m off base on this, I apologise, but I can’t see what conditions you are claiming I’ve broken.

Rob

[gregorypierce]

5.0 LICENSEE DUTIES
Licensee agrees to evaluate and test the Licensed Software for use with Licensee’s products and to provide Feedback to Sun’s email address: j2se-beta-feedback@sun.com. Any test results, error data, reports or other information, or materials provided to Sun relating to the Licensed Software (“Feedback”) is the exclusive property and Confidential Information of Sun. Licensee hereby assigns all Feedback to Sun at no cost to Sun. Sun may use Feedback in any manner and for any purpose, without limitation, liability or obligation to Licensee.

7.0 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
7.1 For purposes of this Agreement, “Confidential Information” means: (i) business and technical information and any source code or binary code, which Sun discloses to Licensee related to Licensed Software; (ii) Licensee’s feedback based on Licensed Software; and (iii) the terms, conditions, and existence of this Agreement. Licensee may not disclose or use Confidential Information, except for the purposes specified in this Agreement. Licensee will protect the Confidential Information with the same degree of care, but not less than a reasonable degree of care, as Licensee uses to protect its own Confidential Information. Licensee’s obligations regarding Confidential Information will expire no less than five (5) years from the date of receipt of the Confidential Information, except for Sun source code which will be protected in perpetuity. Licensee agrees that Licensed Software contains Sun trade secrets.
7.2 Notwithstanding any provisions contained in this Agreement concerning nondisclosure and non-use of the Confidential Information, the nondisclosure obligations of Section 7.1 will not apply to any portion of Confidential Information that Licensee can demonstrate in writing is: (i) now, or hereafter through no act or failure to act on the part of Licensee becomes, generally known to the general public; (ii) known to Licensee at the time of receiving the Confidential Information without an obligation of confidentiality; (iii) hereafter rightfully furnished to Licensee by a third party without restriction on disclosure; or (iv) independently developed by Licensee without any use of the Confidential Information.
7.3 Licensee must restrict access to Confidential Information to its employees or contractors with a need for this access to perform their employment or contractual obligations and who have agreed in writing to be bound by a confidentiality obligation, which incorporates the protections and restrictions substantially as set forth in this Agreement.

Its all still confidential at this point, its not supposed to be discussed openly.

[swpalmer]

Is there actually a discussion list or is it just that one-way feedback address?

[gregorypierce]

Unfortunately its just a one-way feedback address. There was some discussion of a mailing list on javalobby.org, but I’m not aware of its situation. There are people who I communicate with directly, so I don’t know.