[isabelle-dev] Oracle

[Makarius]

Attentive readers of general IT / software news might have noticed two 
details:

   * JDK 1.7 is under constant attack and Oracle is shipping patched 
versions like crazy.  They are now at 7u15, but I did not follow that 
update, because it only affects scurity of applets and application 
servers.  Note that Oracle once again did not manage to fill all known 
holes, so 7u17 will probably arrive very soon.

   * JDK 1.8 was planned as "developer preview" last week, but they had to 
postpone it for at least 6 weeks.  "General availability" of Java 8 is 
Sept. 2013 according to the official plan, but I don't think they will 
keep this date.

Oracle is just small and poor software company.  They are not as fast and 
realiable as we usually are for Isabelle, and David Matthews is for 
Poly/ML.


 	Makarius