Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:54:02 +0900 (JST) From: Maho NAKATA <chat95@mac.com> To: brian@experts-exchange.com Cc: lists@intricatesoftware.com, kurt@intricatesoftware.com, daichi@ongs.co.jp, leafy7382@gmail.com, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion Message-ID: <20090303.165402.179924432.chat95@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200902251003.14760.lists@intricatesoftware.com> References: <49A50BC5.5080009@ongs.co.jp> <c21e92e20902250122wd18a745kd3bf6501c4bb2927@mail.gmail.com> <200902251003.14760.lists@intricatesoftware.com>
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----Security_Multipart(Tue_Mar__3_16_54_02_2009_600)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Brian, What do you think? From: Kurt Miller <lists@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/ Nakata Maho's PGP public keys: http://accc.riken.jp/maho/maho.pgp.txt ----Security_Multipart(Tue_Mar__3_16_54_02_2009_600)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkms4hsACgkQpcQqaPiEzfnemQCfWCyplpNu49255uNDkMKooNG0 BmcAoMGLli2If+k0BuWxtKhnopRwlgxg =3z72 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Tue_Mar__3_16_54_02_2009_600)----
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