Opinions? Why is Sun JDK 6 required by so many?

[GoatZz]

Things like the Jetbrains IDE family, Eclipse (Aptana Studio), even to run Minecraft... one needs Sun JDK 6 installed to make them work. Why do you suppose this is such a requirement and so many software choices haven't moved to support OpenJDK and Java7?

[xenopeek]

I don't know. Minecraft works perfectly fine with OpenJDK 6. As do most applications. OpenJDK 7 is the reference implementation for Oracle Java 7, so there it should make even less of a difference if you don't use the restricted version (i.e., Oracle).

[GoatZz]

I'll give it a shot with OpenJDK 6. It beats farting around with various PPA's

[chillecharlie]

That is so not true, Minecraft doesnt work at all with OpenJDK, or well, it lags like hell compared to Oracle Java 6 JRE or Oracle Java 7 JRE, in my experience it runs most smooth on Oracle java 7.
I have extensively tested it, i own a very very popular Minecraft server in the Netherlands, one of the top servers in our country, and trust me on this, If you play Minecraft, install Oracle!