Building plugin and javaws on Linux

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Alexander,

> I was successfull in building openjdk b18 on my openSUSE 10.2 build service 
> account, but unfortunately the Mozilla plugin and javaws were not build.
> 
> Any idea how to include this to the build. The binary distribution has both so 
> I think there has to be a switch somewhere.

Unfortunately the plugin and webstart sources haven't been released. For
IcedTea we converted gcjwebplugin to work with openjdk.
http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=21
That works pretty nicely. It was integrated into IcedTea 1.3
http://langel.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/icedtea-13-released/
And now actually ships with Fedora RawHide
http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/73-IcedTea-is-Fedorable.html

We haven't integrated a free replacement for webstart yet. But with GNU
Classpath we have been using NetX, which is free and works although only
implements an older jnlp version: http://jnlp.sourceforge.net/netx/

Cheers,

mark