Announcing IcedTea-Web 1.0!

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 13:17 Wed 02 Feb     , Deepak Bhole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have released the first version of IcedTea-Web 1.0!
> 
> IcedTea-Web is an addon component to IcedTea. It is open source (GPL + LGPL for
> some parts) and provides a Java web browser plugin (IcedTea NP Plugin) and Java
> Web Start implementation (i.e. javaws binary, based on NetX and referred to as
> such). Additionally, release 1.0 also contains an alpha preview of
> itweb-settings, a GUI tool to control deployment settings for NetX and the
> plugin.
> 
> So what is new in the plugin and NetX in icedtea-web you ask? Well, lots!
> 
> Improvements:
> 
>  * NetX and plugin configuration can now be specified via a
>    deployment.properties file * System-level as well as user-level
>    deployment.properties files with locked configuration are supported
> 
>  * Applications and applets can now have a Look and Feel different from rest of
>    IcedTea-Web * Native directories are correctly cleaned on exit
> 
>  * Cached files with special characters in file names are now handled correctly
> 
>  * Interfaces javax.jnlp.IntegrationService and javax.jnlp.DownloadService2 are
>    now available
> 
>  * javaws now supports a new  -Xclearcache option
> 
>  * Applications with non-public main classes are now supported.
> 
>  * JNLP files containing <component-desc> as well as <application-desc> will
>    now work
> 
>  * JNLP files referenced in the applet tag are now parsed to detect applet
>    properties
> 
>  * Applets are now double-buffered to eliminate flicker in ones that do heavy
>    drawing
> 
> Bug fixes:
> 
>  * PR592: NetX can create invalid desktop entry files
>  * PR542: Plugin fails with NPE www.openprocessing.org
>  * PR552: Support for FreeBSD’s pthread implementation
>  * PR554: System.err writes content two times
>  * PR556: Applet initialization code is prone to race conditions
>  * PR557: Applet opens in a separate window if tab is closed when the applet
>    loads 
>  * PR565: UIDefaults.getUI fails with jgoodies:looks 2.3.1
>  * PR593: Increment of invalidated iterator in IcedTeaPluginUtils
>  * PR597: Entities are parsed incorrectly in PARAM tag in applet plugin
>  * PR619: Improper finalization by the plugin can crash the browser
>  * RH665104: OpenJDK Firefox Java plugin loses a cookie
> 
> It can be downloaded here:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.0.tar.gz
> 
> Build instructions are here:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web
> 
> SHA256 sum:
> e33413768cdf2ffce66aaff00fed5dd06deb09ed7eb28e522cdad4f29b78e594  icedtea-web-1.0.tar.gz
> 
> A big thanks to Andrew John Hughes, Omair Majid and Andrew Su for helping make this happen!
> 
> Cheers,
> Deepak

Hurrah!
-- 
Andrew :)

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