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Red Hat is taking over stewardship of the OpenJDK 7 project, at the moment a generation behind the current release of Java.
OpenJDK has served as the open source version of Java, providing a testing ground for Java features to be included in Oracle's commercially supported Java Development Kit. Red Hat will provide support, including bug fixes for OpenJDK 7, said Craig Muzilla, senior vice president of Red Hat's application platforms business. Red Hat leverages OpenJDK 7 in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.
"Most application developers, if they build an application based on a particular version [of Java] and they're going to put an application in production for a long period of time, it could be five, six, seven years, and they're running on a certain JDK, they want to make sure that there's somebody behind that," Muzilla said in an interview on Friday. "That's the role that we're playing in the community, and that's the role that we're playing at Red Hat."
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