missing JRE parts

Phil Race Phil.Race at Sun.COM
Fri May 11 15:50:06 UTC 2007


These are 'bundled' with sun's binary distributions but aren't part of it.
So they aren't part of this open source release.
My (personal) understanding is we plan to release them but the work is 
at an early stage.

-phil.

Olaf Razzoli wrote:
> First of all, thanks to Sun for the important steps into the open 
> source world.
>
> After spending some time searching in the source code, it seems that 
> Java Web Start and the web browser Plugin technology are missing. I 
> know they are part of the JRE, and Sun open sourced JDK, but I thought 
> they are necessary to build a complete open source java distribution.
> I would like to know if and when the source code is supposed to be 
> released.
> Thanks in advance
> Olaf




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