HotSpot 14

Joseph D. Darcy Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Mon May 18 21:53:44 UTC 2009


Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> snip...
>> Given how well this model works for IcedTea working with OpenJDK, I'm
>> confident it can also work for the JDK's incorporation of corba, jaxp, and
>> jaxws :-)
>>
>>     
>
> Indeed, IcedTea already downloads a tarball of the HSX repository and
> deletes the OpenJDK6 version.  Having to sync between HSX and OpenJDK6
> just seems to create unnecessary work.
>
> The big question is what would be in the build drops -- would these be
> a complete amalgamation of all the tarballs from their various sources
> or just upstream OpenJDK6 (i.e. jdk and langtools by the sound of it)?
>   

That is a detail that remains to be worked out.  Would you prefer one 
big tarball?

-Joe



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