New Project approved: JDK 6

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 14:48 -0800, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
>> What is the Javascript hole you are referring to?
> 
> There are two 'holes' with respect to Javascript.
> - The core library scripting doesn't currently support javascript.
>   This could be fixed by integrating Rhino
>   (http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/)
> - There is a general hole with regard to applet support in browsers.
>   In IcedTea this is filled by integrating gcjwebplugin.
>   This works pretty nicely except for the java/javascript (LiveConnect)
>   support. Thomas Fitszimmons is working on a gcjweblugin rewrite to
>   make that happen.
> 
>   And maybe the Sun plugin code (which probably already has
>   LiveConnect implemented) could be added to OpenJDK one day.
>   But I don't know the status of that one.

The plugin code is outside of the current scope of OpenJDK 6.

Regards,

-Joe