Oracle strikes back!

The Oracle Enterprise Linux for sun4v has just been released!

Based on RHEL 6 and kernel 4.1.  https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/

How cool is that?!?

CruiseControl 2.8.4 and JDK7

Upgraded system JDK to Java 7 and noticed that the dashboard in your CruiseControl stays gray?
Well there is even an official bug CC-1049 in the JIRA (currently it seems to be down, I used Google cache to access it).

With -debug switch on there is a hint error message:

Cannot construct net.sourceforge.cruisecontrol.BuildLoopInformation as it does not have a no-args constructor.

The root of the problem: Oracle changed the vendor name from "Sun Microsystems Inc." to “Oracle Corporation”. The solution is really simple, either add

-Djava.vm.vendor="Sun Microsystems Inc." -XX:+OverrideVMProperties

to your java call in cruisecontrol.sh , or replace xstream-1.2.2.jar and xpp3_min-1.1.3.4.O.jar files both in lib/ and webapps/dashboard/WEB-INF/lib/ with xstream-1.4.1.jar and kxml2-2.3.0.jar respectively.

Did java 5+ ever work on 32 bit SPARC machines?

Basically the question should sound "Did java 5_ ever work on 32 bit SPARC machines?", because for the plus part I already know the answer. Up to now it didn't.

Here goes the story: