Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:40:57 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Cc: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret@scotth.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: IcedTea Message-ID: <201008031641.01111.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1280862606.25758.6.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> References: <1280862606.25758.6.camel@scotth.emsphone.com>
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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... Sigh... Jung-uk Kim
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