The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion

Brian Gardner brian at experts-exchange.com
Tue Mar 3 14:04:27 PST 2009


Let's remove the option for now.  Perhaps we can port the icedtea plugin 
and webstart at a later date and re-introduce it.

Brian

Maho NAKATA wrote:
> Hello Brian,
>
> What do you think?
>
> From: Kurt Miller <lists at intricatesoftware.com>
> Subject: Re: OpenJDK6 and NetBeans: Who can use non-English fonts on NetBeans?
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:03:14 -0500
>
>   
>> OpenJDK (6 or 7) doesn't yet come with a plugin or webstart. It is not
>> clear if Sun will ever release them under GPL. The last semi-offical
>> statement is here:
>>
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2008-September/001283.html
>>
>> The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion.
>>
>> I believe that the lack of the plugin will prevent OpenJDK6 from
>> building OpenOffice. :( Perhaps the approach Fedora took might work
>> for a plugin replacement. See 16.3 for a description:
>>
>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Java.html
>>
>> It mentions the lack of support for LiveConnect. If I'm not mistaken
>> that is need for the plugin to work in Firefox (memory rusty on this
>> one). However it may be good enough to allow OpenJDK6 to build
>> OpenOffice.
>>     
>
> -- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/ , http://ja.openoffice.org/
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