[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Status of com.sun.image.codec.jpeg

[Martin Buchholz]

Hi Chris,

Thanks very much for that informative pointer.

In hindsight, it would have been good if @deprecated
warnings had been added to these classes years ago.
Today it's probably too late to do much good.

Martin

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Chris Campbell
<Christopher.Campbell at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> The history (and fate) of those classes is documented here:
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6527962
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>
>> Hi 2d guys,
>>
>> We're testing different flavors of OpenJDK,
>> and noticing uses of classes in com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.
>> These classes are still in non-OpenJDK JDK7.
>> They were removed from OpenJDK, probably
>> because they were encumbered (proprietary Kodak code).
>> The IcedTea folks have created new versions of these
>> classes, but they appear to be only stubs.
>>
>> Can we have a clear statement about the status?
>> These classes were documented at least for 1.4, e.g.
>>
>>
>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/2d/api-jpeg/com/sun/image/codec/jpeg/JPEGImageEncoder.html
>>
>> There does appear to be full support for the JPEG image
>> standard in OpenJDK and IcedTea.  It would be nice if the
>> API in com.sun.image.codec.jpeg could be adapted, or if not,
>> at least provide stubs with clear @deprecated tags that
>> explain to maintainers of legacy code
>> what APIs should be used instead.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Martin
>
>