Icedtea-Web

I posted 3 patches today The first patch is for OpenJDK 9. It creates a hole that allows alternative plugin implementations to plug into (pardon the pun) OpenJDK and make use of existing plugin-specific classes in OpenJDK. The second and third patches are for IcedTea-Web. They allow IcedTea-Web to (progressively) build against OpenJDK8 and OpenJDK9. What does this mean? Soon we might actually be able to build and run IcedTea- Web against OpenJDK. Yes, an Open Source/Free Software plugin running on top of OpenJDK (without any custom patches). Of course, a lot of this is still up in the air. The OpenJDK folks might not accept the patch, though I am hopeful they will - it’s very small and conservative. ...

A number of changes occurred between IcedTea-Web 1.0 and IcedTea-Web 1.1. If you are a packager or a developer here are some things you need to know. Are you a packager? IcedTea-Web 1.1 can be installed into a regular prefix (/usr/ or /usr/local/ or anything else). Unlike IcedTea-Web 1.0, you do not need to install IcedTea-Web into a JDK or JRE directory. IcedTea-Web uses a JDK to build itself (specified using --with-jdk-home). IcedTea-Web will use the JDK it was compiled against to run. The launchers (javaws and itweb-settings) are now shell scripts and can be customized as needed. ...