New Project approved: JDK 6

[Mark Wielaard]

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.

Some of this is tracked in IcedTea:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#What_is_the_status_of_javascript.3F
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85

Cheers,

Mark