[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/9/2018 5:13 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-02-09 19:39:44 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:
>> On 2/8/2018 11:33 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> HPE and VSI can and should be providing patches to Java, though there 
>>> haven't been patches or updates kitted and tested and passed through 
>>> for OpenVMS based on the various Oracle security updates.
>>
>> They release occasionally.
>>
>> 5.0 got an update 9 in April 2016 equivalent to Oracle 1.5.0_85.
>>
>> 6.0 got an update 7 in September 2017 equivalent to Oracle 1.6.0_151.
> 
> Those are very old versions of Java.

They are very old indeed.

But HPE does support them.

> VSI and HPE do have Java 8 available for OpenVMS I64 V8.4 and later,

> The current OpenVMS port is based on Java 8 update 51,

I know. But it does not look like HPE has released any updates yet. So
I could not really use Java 8 as an example.

:-)

>                                                    where the current 
> version of Java 8 is update 161 released 16-Jan-2018.

Or 162 depending on ones courage.

>                                                 This is a problem 
> for some.

Yes. They are far behind with getting updates out.

And behind with releases as well. 9!

Arne