[eclipse-dev] Reference platform JREs

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Part of the process of selecting reference
platforms for the Eclipse platform involves selecting reference Java runtime
environments (JREs). Often this is just the most current service release
or update for a given operating system, but it may be an older JRE if there
are problems with a newer one. I would like to solicit community input
on particular JRE versions that we should consider or avoid as reference
JREs for the Helios release of the Eclipse platform. Please provide this
input in bug 288810 [1]. For example, if you know of a VM bug that makes
a particular JRE version unusable for Eclipse (such as [2]), or if there
is a new VM feature that gives us a compelling reason to move up (such
as 64-bit reference compression), we'd like to know about it. In the end,
we'll only list reference platforms that someone has committed to regularly
test, but your input could help us in focusing our limited testing resources
on the most appropriate JRE versions. Note that we are already aware of
the breakpoint bug in recent Sun Java 6 JREs [3].

Thanks,
John

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=288810
[2] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6614100
[3] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6862295