IcedTea

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:40 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 August 2010 03:10 pm, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> > Has anyone tried the latest IcedTea dist (1.8 I think), which I
> > believe has the Java plugin?
> 
> I haven't tried the lastest IcedTea but I have experimented with some 
> old versions.  FYI, you cannot use IcedTea as is because it is just a 
> bunch of patches and build glues for Linux distros.
> 
> > Is this the way FreeBSD will provide the Java plugin or is there
> > still hope that Oracle/Sun will opensource the plugin code?
> 
> Theoretically, you can build the IcedTea plugin with FreeBSD OpenJDK 
> ports.  Last time I tried, all I needed to build the plugin was 
> liveconnect, netx, and plugin directories and some patches in 
> patches/extensions from the IcedTea tarball.  Of course, you need to 
> write some build glues, which is, well, not so trivial.  Any way, I 
> was able to build it but it was incomplete because we didn't have the 
> latest libxul in ports tree to make it work at the time.  I believe 
> Gecko porting team is working on it and I may try it again if I find 
> some copious free time. ;-)
> 
> > I know this has been brought up before, with firefox 4 in the works
> > I'm sure it will require a newer java as well.
> 
> FYI, Firefox has nothing to do with Java version itself.  Mozilla team 
> just removed the old Java plugin API (OJI) from newer Gecko engines 
> and that's all.  I think "Look, Sun has released plugin binaries with 
> the new API for Linux!  Let's kill the old API." was really really a 
> bad decision because 1) Sun promised but never released the sources 
> after all, 2) it pretty much killed all third-party OJI plugins 
> including my Diablo plugin for FreeBSD/amd64.  Of course, you can 
> stay with old Firefox and friends but...  

I have no problem using 3.5, just wondering how much longer they will 
support it (I'm sure for a while).
> Sigh...  
  Yes, that won't be good for the Desktop BSD's dists.

Thanks for the info.

> 
> Jung-uk Kim
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