Update for JDK Installation Failure for Brazillian Portuguese To accommodate this update, the Windows build version will increase from Java SE 6u21-b06 to Java SE 6u21-b07. The change affected only the Windows version of the JRE, not the versions for Solaris and Linux. This value will be changed to "Oracle" in JDK 7. In consideration to Eclipse and other potentially affected users, Oracle has restored the Windows Company Name property value to "Sun Microsystems". A workaround was quickly identified and posted on Eclipse's website, but a wide distribution of the rebranded JRE executable could negatively impact many Eclipse users. Restoration of the Company Name Property Affecting Eclipse UsersĪs part of Oracle's rebranding of Sun's products, the Company Name property of the java.exe file, the executable file containing Oracle's JRE for Windows, was updated from "Sun Microsystems" to "Oracle" in Java SE 6u21.Īfter the updated JRE was posted, it was reported that the change affected Eclipse users by causing it to hang when starting Eclipse after updating to the rebranded JRE. Java SE 6u21 provides a fix that lets drag-and-drop operations succeed for signed applications or applications with the accessClipboard permission granted. See Mixing Signed and Unsigned Code for more information.ĭrag-and-drop would, under certain circumstances, result in a null value being passed instead of the expected data. As of this release, an enhancement is added allowing some sandboxed jar files to be signed without having to change the JNLP file to request the all-permissions security model. BTrace4VisualVM plugin introduces BTrace 1.1Įnsuring Application and Applet Security when Mixing Signed and Unsigned CodeĪs of the Java SE 6 Update 19 release, when both signed and unsigned code are detected in a Java Web Start application or applet, a warning dialog is raised.VisualVM-Sampler performance improvements.This release introduces the following features and enhancements: Java VisualVM based on VisualVM 1.2.2 is included in Java SE 6u21. (G1 continues to be available in Early Access via the -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC flag.) Java SE 6u21 includes version 17.0 of the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine with improvements to overall quality and features such as compressed object pointers, escape analysis-based optimization, code cache management, the Concurrent Mark-Sweep garbage collector and its successor, the Garbage First (G1) garbage collector. With Java SE 6u21, you can now enhance the loading experience of an application by providing a customized loading progress indicator (sometimes referred to as a progress bar) to better inform the end user of how much of the application has been downloaded during startup. Support for Customized Loading Progress Indicators Refer to the Supported System Configurations page.
Īdditional Supported System Configurationsįor Java SE 6u21, support has been added for the following system configurations: For more information about the security baseline, see Deploying Java Applets With Family JRE Versions in Java Plug-in for Internet Explorer.