Oracle regard backward compatibility as secondary; Turn off auto updates.

Seriously I've had stable software broken now by two consecutive minor releases of the JDK 21 and 22. And it's not the result of accidentally introduced bugs in either case but as a result of deliberate changes in the API.
See http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6996110 and http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6979376
From the evaluation of 699110
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A decision was made that compatibility was secondary to the security risk these headers posed.
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Note, by the way, that the security risk in question is not to the Java user, manipulation of these headers may be used to attack weaknesses in some security products, apparently. Apparently it's a feeble attempt to prevent hackers from using Java for their evil deeds.
The other "fix" has even less justification, and even more obvious negative consequences.
I conclude that I must now treat future minor JDK upgrades as potentially toxic and instruct users to disable the automatic updates process.

At the Java conference I attended in NYC last week they stated determination to support both Hotspot and JRocket; however, JRocket would be required for some things
I'm sorry that's so vague, but I was concentrating more on the demos and labs and stuff was wizzing by too fast to catch it all and I did not take notes.
Perhaps [url http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/oracle-moving-merge-jrockit-hotspot-jvms-448]this will help more.

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Thomas... another bad answer. When you say...
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Natty,
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b Autofill
feature with your
i shuffle.
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, but that does
b not
allow you to add songs that aren't on your computer.
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i shuffle
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i Manually manage songs and playlists.
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i MonH,
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