Oracle Removes Java Signatures, Breaking Webstart

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Posted by timothy on Thursday September 22, 2011 @08:22AM from the is-this-your-homework-larry dept.

sproketboy writes "It seems Oracle has decided in their infinite wisdom to remove digital signatures from the Java projects that they put into the open source community. Of course this breaks any application out there depending on Java Webstart using these libs. Looks like Java3D and JAI are currently affected — probably other APIs are as well. Oh Oracle! What are we supposed to do with you?"

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Re:Die! (Score:3, Interesting)

by i_ate_god ( 899684 ) writes: on Thursday September 22, 2011 @09:14AM (#37478834)

Python seems to think it isn't true.
Java assumes everyone is a bad programmer.

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