Every once in a while you hit a JDK bug that you cannot work around. You post a bug to Oracle (Sun in the past) and find out it's a duplicate that has been sitt

Every once in a while you hit a JDK bug that you cannot work around. You post a bug to Oracle (Sun in the past) and find out it's a duplicate that has been sitting around for years unfixed. If you have paid support, a small team of engineers will dedicate their time to fix the bug for you and provide you with a patch, so you can move on. The patch can sometimes be specific for your platform and situation. This is particularly true if you are stuck with older JDK version and cannot move forward for various reasons.