Will Webstart be integrated in OpenJDK?

[Frans Thamura]

i wish all as open as we want

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. <geir at pobox.com> wrote:
> The lack of a free/open/public TCK for JDK 6 is simply a business decision
> on Sun's part.
>
> There's no other reason it can't be done right now, rather than have to wait
> for the as-yet-not-a-JSR Java7 (see : decision, business) to not only get
> started, but wait 18-24 months to complete.
>
> geir
>
>
> On Sep 11, 2008, at 6:18 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:24 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>
>>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>>> The biggest problem at the moment is the JCK.  I'm quite happy for
>>>> Sun to use this to certify their own mashed-up proprietary/Free
>>>> builds inside Sun labs, and equally it's been great to see this
>>>> applied to a purely Free build by Red Hat.  However, what disturbed
>>>> me recently was seeing this used as a tool for patch approval during
>>>> the AWT/Swing/Java2D discussion Mario mentions.
>>>
>>> Why not?  A gcc patch that failed Plum Hall testing would be rejected
>>> too, assuming (or course) that the Plum Hall test was valid.
>>
>> I couldn't find any recent examples of Plum Hall testing against gcc
>> patch reviews and rejection of patches because of them. But I am pretty
>> sure the submitter isn't responsible for getting a license agreement
>> with Plum Hall for contributing to GCC.
>>
>> The problem with the TCK is precisely that you need to enter an NDA
>> agreement with Sun over it and that there is no public discussion about
>> the validity of the tests. Publicly it isn't even know which patches
>> went in because they made a TCK test pass or because they just
>> invalidated a TCK test and got it added to the exception lists.
>>
>> The problem with the current NDA TCK setup is that that you cannot share
>> tests and code snippets from it with the rest of the community, your
>> users and customers. You either end up rewriting the tests so you can
>> publicly share it with others on the mailinglists. Or you have to say
>> "just trust me, the TCK tests for this particular corner case in this
>> particular way, so this patch is necessary even though I cannot really
>> proof it". Neither is really satisfactory. But I would opt for the
>> rewriting the tests so we have a free replacement.
>>
>>>> A Free project being dependent on a proprietary test suite for
>>>> patches is just as bad as it being dependent on proprietary tools to
>>>> build.  As Mark mentioned in reply to this, we should work towards
>>>> improving jtreg and Mauve to ensure a Free test suite is available
>>>> and not rely on the JCK.
>>>
>>> It's not going to happen.  The TCK tests a whole lot of minute details
>>> of Java langauge compatibility that are not fully explained in the
>>> Javadoc, and so any open test suite that does not derive from the TCK
>>> will not be complete.
>>
>> That could be true, but if so, it is even more important to get this TCK
>> issue resoled and get a free replacement. It clearly points out a
>> deficiency in our current documentation that you are unable to tell from
>> them what the details of a particular method or class really are.
>>
>> I think having a free TCK should be one of the goals for JDK7 at least.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
>



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