[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Missing com/sun/image/codec/jpeg/ classes in openJDK7

[John Wolfe]

Thanks for the response and the reminder that they were dropped from the 
spec.

I did the ports of the Sun J2SE 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 for UnixWare and 
OpenServer in the past.   The jfc/Java2D demo was always a good exercise 
for graphics and thread control.    While the Java2D demo is not in 
openJDK6, I grabbed a Java2Demo.jar file from the Oracle JDK6 and it ran 
on the OpenJDK6

     openjdk version "1.6.0_32"
     OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_32-b27)
     OpenJDK Client VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)

I have checked the OpenJDK6 source and the codec classes are there.   
The missing class(es) showed up when attempting to run the Java2Demo.jar 
with the OpenJDK 7u6.

-- John


On 6/26/2013 7:09 PM, Phil Race wrote:
> I do not know in which JDK 6 it was you saw these files but I doubt it 
> was an OpenJDK.
> These files are closed source, so could not be in OpenJDK and in any case
> are not part of the Java SE spec.
> If you need these classes you will need to use an Oracle JDK download, 
> however
> their use has been discouraged since Image I/O was added in JDK 1.4 
> over 10 years ago.
>
> -phil.
>
> On 6/26/2013 3:05 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
>> I was evaluating the OpenJDK 7 on a FreeBSD 9.1 system and was 
>> surprised to discover that all the JPEG encoded/decode classes in:
>>
>>     com/sun/image/codec/jpeg
>>     sun/awt/image/codec
>>
>> are absent from the rt.jar.   These missing 12 classes are part of 
>> the OpenJDK 6 source release.
>>
>> What is the reasoning for their absence?     This seems to break 
>> forward compatibility?
>>
>> -- John Wolfe        Xinuos, Inc.
>>
>>
>