GreenDust comments on Happy dev noises

[–] GreenDust@lemmings.world 12 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I don't do Java. What is being implied here?

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 47 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The company is using old proprietary software that breaks unless a specific java version is used. And don't want to upgrade/switch because it is too expensive.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Isn’t there an openjdk impl in like every major Linux distro repository?

And so I assume the same would be available for windows?

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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago*

yes, but that doesn't help if the software refuses to run on modern java

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[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Some crappy software actively checks for a specific version, and you can't work around that.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you edit the byte code with a hex editor to change that check?

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[–] pillowtags@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Not if you want support from the vendor :p

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Just build the OSS version of java-impl with the patched version number as expected by the shitty software.

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago*

You assumed the switch needs to happen on the JDK. It's actually that we bought this software that depends on the old version with a perpetual license 18 years ago before every decided SaaS was god so we've got another 3 years left before ROI breaks even

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