<AWT Dev> Fwd: RFR: make life easier for general java plugin

[Phil Race]

What is the goal here ? Is it to allow icedtea-web to load an applet into
a JRE other than icedtea ?
If not and its all one bundle, you can patch the module system to
allow whatever access you need.

So what does icedtea-web need from such a standard interface ?

-phil.

On 11/26/2014 9:41 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> ping?
>
> On 10/31/2014 03:30 PM, Mario Torre wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 14:54 +0100, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>>> On 06/19/2014 04:46 PM, Petr Pchelko wrote:
>>>> Hello, Jiri.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the delayed answer.
>>>>   From the code point of view you current change looks OK to me. 
>>>> It's an internal package and we can change the access modifier easily.
>>>>
>>>> The more general question is what are you going to achieve by 
>>>> making this change?
>>>> In JDK-9 we would have modules and you will not be able to use the 
>>>> sun.* packages at all, so this changeset is useless for JDK9.
>>>> Do you want this to go to JDK8?
>>>>
>>>> In the original discussion there was a suggestion about providing a 
>>>> standard public interface for alternative plugins.
>>>> This path looks more promising to me, because it will work in JDK9. 
>>>> Did any progress happen in that direction?
>>>
>>> hi guys!
>>>
>>> Do we need some JEP to make  this happen?
>>
>> Sorry, this one slipped off my radar.
>>
>> I think the general consensus here is that we need a JEP for JDK 9. I
>> have no experience preparing one, but I was about to approach that for
>> the look and feel idea, so I'll be happy to help.
>>
>> Perhaps something that will work with the new module system?
>>
>> We need some help from Oracle here, since there are other
>> implementations of the plugins, getting to know your experience is quite
>> important.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mario
>>
>>
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