Can icedtea's web browser plugin be ported to windows ?

[Alex Kashchenko]

Hi,

On 09/04/2015 12:35 PM, Huzaifa Nazir wrote:
>
> Hi,
>     - I have used windows unofficial openjdk port from here https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds
>     - Tried porting icedtea's web plugin under cygwin from here http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.5.tar.gz
> but it failed with following Errors:
>     -  initially it was failing to find X11.EmbeddedFrame class in OpenJDK  ["configure: error: sun.awt.X11.XEmbeddedFrame not found"]
>     - upon skipping the class check, it started requiring some methods related to applets within OpenJDK to be public which in the used OpenJDK were private
>
> How can icedtea's web plugin component be ported to windows? is it even possible?

I know there were discussions about Windows support in IcedTea Web 
browser plugin [1] on distro-pkg-dev list (CC'ing it), but I don't know 
whether there were any results.

Also WebStart module from IcedTea Web should work fine on all platforms 
running as following (from the command line, outside of the browser):

     java -Xbootclasspath/a:netx.jar net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot 
some.jnlp


[1] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-September/029509.html

-- 
-Alex