Support Forums: Message List - Is a twelve-year-old bug in the JDK out there waiting to bite you?

If only this would be so

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:50:39 -0500

This is why I don't work for banks.

SUGGESTED FIX of the bug 7008595 is not enough

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:50:16 -0500

When a Java thread is created, it copies the protection domain (security context or AccessControlContext) of its parent thread.

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Is a twelve-year-old bug in the JDK out there waiting to bite you?

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:44:34 -0500

I thought it was WebLogic Server doing this.

If only this would be so

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:36:49 -0500

It's the same as updating the OS on a server. Updating implies risk. Until you perform a lot of tests, you can't be sure you will land up with regressions. You sometimes prefer dealing with the bugs as you can contain them rather than dealing with new...

If only this would be so

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:09:10 -0500

It gets worse. My company writes banking software on an IBM stack, and we just move *TO* JDK 1.5 (due to moving IBM stacks up a version) about a year ago. To say "banks are conservative" doesn't even begin to describe it.

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If only this would be so

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:47:44 -0500

Your words to the managers' ears... As market researches and over-the-beer talks show: huge part of our industry is stuck with old versions of the infrastucture. Only about 20% are migrated to JDK7, and some are still using JDK5, which is just plain...

Is a twelve-year-old bug in the JDK out there waiting to bite you?

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:30:44 -0500

If you keep running with an older JDK, then implicitly you've made the decision that its current behavior, bugs and all, is good enough.

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Is a twelve-year-old bug in the JDK out there waiting to bite you?

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:42:37 -0500

Apparently ever since we had access to Java 1.4 we have lived along with a classloader leak built right in to the JDK. It is patched in the most recent Java 7 releases, but no backports exist for older JDKs. So at least