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Monsie wrote:
Why is this? Does this mean: this patch is a beta release --soon to be replaced by a stable build? Or, is Oracle really referring to the SDK rather than the JRE?

Monsie

"It's the date by which Java will consider itself out of date"

You probably didn't realize that java could do that, right?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1606 ... ation-date

jpeps wrote:

Monsie wrote:
Why is this? Does this mean: this patch is a beta release --soon to be replaced by a stable build? Or, is Oracle really referring to the SDK rather than the JRE?

Monsie

"It's the date by which Java will consider itself out of date"

You probably didn't realize that java could do that, right?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1606 ... ation-date

Thanks, jpeps

You are correct, I did not realize that a so called expiration date was set in each release. I may be wrong here, but I am thinking that this is policy that Oracle implemented and not Sun. My take is that it is really more useful to the developer/maintainer than Joe Consumer (pun intended) because it will likely fit with the (Oracle) schedule of maintenance releases... and besides, Java is configured to check for updates monthly anyway.

Monsie

BLOG, two days ago >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 55741.html

BLOG.. Yesterday >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 04172.html

BLOG.. Yesterday >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 16950.html

Today >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 85002.html

JRE 8, two days ago >> https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/java_se_8_is_now

Both 7 & 8, two days ago..