IcedTea vs plain OpenJDK

[Andrew Hughes]

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> 
> If I build jre for embedded x86_64 Linux environment what benefits
> does
> IcedTea
>  give compared to plain OpenJDK build?
> 

The main difference these days is ease of building and support for using
system libraries rather than in-tree versions.  We're aiming towards getting
the IcedTea build to use OpenJDK itself, rather than its own tree, and thus
reducing the number of differences.

If you want plugin and Java Web Start support, you need to look at IcedTea-Web
as OpenJDK doesn't provide an implementation.

> Thanks,
> Evgueni
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Andrew :)

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