OpenJDK7 and the JavaOne preview (M3) release

[Andrew John Hughes]

Dear all,

Sun plan to release a JavaOne preview of JDK7 on May 21st
(http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/milestones/).
We'd like to do a corresponding release of IcedTea7 (1.10) around the
same time, that can then be packaged in any distros that wish to ship
such a preview.
This will involve:

* Updating IcedTea7 to support the latest build drop from Sun
(currently b57, which is the last non-stabilisation release).
IcedTea7 is now based on the IcedTea forest
(http://hg.openjdk.java.net/icedtea/jdk7) so this is a two stage
process involving pulling the latest changes into the forest and then
ensuring this builds with IcedTea7.
* Updating Shark/Zero in IcedTea7; ideally we would put this directly
into the forest, but I don't know how ready Gary is for this step.
* Updating the plugin/jaxws support; again it would be nice to have it
in the forest, but there probably isn't enough time.
* Any additional features from IcedTea6; we're not doing mass merges
any more because the two have diverged so far from each other that
this has become impractical (probably lots of conflicts and build
breakages for a few usable changes).  doko and mjw have already
requested that --with-additional-vms and systemtap support be added.

Any help would be much appreciated.  Integration of Shark/Zero and the
plugin can be done fairly independently so if someone wants to work on
this, feel free.
-- 
Andrew :-)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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