New Project approved: JDK 6

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 31/01/2008, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> 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.
>
> 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
>
>

Thanks Mark :) The first is the one I was referring to, but Joe
answered my question anyway; OpenJDK 6 will still have binary plugs so
I guess we need an IcedTea 6 to make it usable for now :)

Is Rhino usable? I thought Rhino was already filling the hole in the
proprietary JDK and thus that it had to be taken out, which seems
strange given it's MPL / GPL 2 licensed.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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