<AWT Dev> Bug 7130662/7165729

[Anthony Petrov]

Hi All,

The fix is very simple and has been in JDK8 repo for 10 months by now. I 
think we can safely backport it to a 7 update release.

Denis: could you please send an approval request to jdk7u-dev@ for this 
fix, and then push it to the repo? You can find the review thread in 
this mailing list's archive.

Felix: OpenJDK 6 is not the best example here. Starting from OpenJDK 7, 
OracleJDK uses exactly the same sources as OpenJDK. So for the most part 
they are essentially the same products. However, there are still some 
minor differences present, mostly in implementation. E.g. OracleJDK 
provides a proprietary font rasterizer whereas OpenJDK relies on the 
freetype library for this purpose. Also, OracleJDK includes a deployment 
stack to support applet and webstart applications. This code is not 
open-sourced currently, but AFAIK the OpenJDK community have their own 
alternative implementations for these features.

--
best regards,
Anthony

On 11/14/2012 11:44 PM, Felix Natter wrote:
> "Denis S. Fokin" <denis.fokin at oracle.com>
> writes:
> 
>> Hi Felix,
> 
> Hi Denis!
> 
>> the fix has been pushed in jdk8 workspace.
> 
> Is it true that OpenJDK and Oracle JDK have the same source code (minus
> some closed source components in the oracle jdk)? How come that
> OpenJDK<x> is sometimes uncompatible to JDK<x>? (I remember having
> experienced a freemind bug only on OpenJDK, but that was OpenJDK_6_).
> 
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/awt/jdk/log?rev=7130662
>>
>> "Affected Versions" means that the problem exists in thespecified
>> releases. Fixes are not necessarily back-ported in previous releases.
> 
> So I have to wait a few years till most of our users are using Java8
> (JDK8, OpenJDK8)?
> 
> I'd like to replace the JFileChooser (Swing) by java.awt.FileDialog on
> Linux because JFileChooser does not provide access to things like
> network shares and USB sticks (without navigating to a distro dependent
> location like /mnt/xxx or /media/xxx). The GTK L&F even provides a
> really bad GTK1 file chooser lookalike.
> 
> The problem was discussed here:
>   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10597831/improving-jfilechooser-under-ubuntu-12-04-gtk
> Is there a better solution than java.awt.FileDialog and working around
> that bug?
> 
> Thanks! Best Regards,