Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:47:40 -0500 From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret@scotth.emsphone.com> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IcedTea Message-ID: <1280868460.25758.20.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <201008031641.01111.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <1280862606.25758.6.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <201008031641.01111.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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