Re: [fyi][icedtea7] windows builds

[Jacob Wisor]

Alex Kasko <alex.kasko.lists at ...> writes:

> 
> On 07/29/2013 02:41 AM, Lussier, Denis wrote:
> > This is great.  IMHO, the dominance of Windows as a client platform and the
> > absence of Webstart-like browser support, made OpenJDK 6 for Windows more
> > of an experiment/steppingStone than a production open source project.
> To be clear, I've built only openjdk part of icedtea7 without icedtea-web.
> 
> Webstart from icedtea-web (pure java netx.jar) works on windows with any 
> JRE and may be run like this:
> 
>      java -Xbootclasspath/a:netx.jar net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot 
> myapp.jnlp
> 
> I think it may be wrapped into windows binary launcher quite easily.

You actually do not need a /binary/ launcher. A batch file should do, if you
want a more sophisticated launcher, especially to support the -J switch to
pass arguments to the JVM a VBScript or JScript launcher can do an even
better job. VBScript and JScript Windows Scripting Hosts are available since
Windows 98 and Windows 2000, so there should be no problem here. Even
Windows 7 handles some product activation and license management with
VBScripts. So, that is probably the way to go.

The Java part of NetX and plug-in lack quite a bit of Windows integration.
Its overall quality is still far from production quality code that you would
expect from comparable enterprise software. It is mainly missing signed code
verification. You can import and export certificates, but the verification
has not been implemented yet.
 
> About browser-plugin - I think it's not so complex task to build it for 
> windows firefox as a proof of concept (I have some experience with 
> native firefox plugins). But make it stable with all security-related 
> corner cases and support it further will require a lot of tedious work. 
> It seems like an interesting project, but not for spare time.

Yep, it is still a lot to do, too lengthy task just for some spare time work.