Icedtea supports something called "Pepper"?

[Jiri Vanek]

On 07/16/2014 05:44 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Then please, may you explain what i'm not understand?
>
> The OP referred to "his applets stopped working" on the ORACLE JDK.
> I explained that I think that is due to his applets code being
> UNSIGNED, and that he should, going forward, sign his applets.
> You replied that applets continue to work with Icedtea, and asked if I
> wanted to see Icedtea run unsigned applets without click to play. That
> was NOT what I was saying. I was describing the way Oracle JRE/JDK
> works now, for security reasons. (click to play on unsigned code), and
> that users who see that (applets disabled) jump to the conclusion that
> "his applets stopped working" without getting into the details of
> WHY...
>

There is (common) misinterpretation in this.

You must differ

- oracle (proprietary) JDK
- oracle (proprietary) plugin/webstart implementation
- openjdk (still some distros are using it wrapped by icedtea)
- icedtea-web (another jdk plugin/implementation)
and forcompletness:
- ibm (proprietary jdk)
- ibm plugin and javaws implementation


Icedtea-web is implementation of javaws and have its java plugin, similar to Oracle's plugin. Even 
Ibm java have its plugin+(theirs!) javaws implementation.
Unlike proprietary plugin, which is bundled together with proprietary jdk, icedtea-web can run on 
Openjdk, Oracle JDK and IBM jdk (there are still something to fix with IBM jdk). Icedtea web is not 
  bounded to Openjdk, nor OracleJDk nor IBM.

If you will run Icedtea-web with oracle jdk (or Ibm) it will always behave as icedta-web. Not like 
proprietary plugin. So the issue you are describing is in plugin implementation. Not in icedtea, nor 
in Oracle JDK.  And vice versa - if you will be able to runproprietaru plugin/javaws on different 
jdk, it will (probably, I have never tried) behave as you are used from "home" jdk.

This may be hard to understand (especially if you were around original classpath plugin, later 
around icedtea, and have missed separation of ITW, or dying of icedtea), but I hope it clarifies 
things a bit for you.


Now - thw question is still unanswered - what should ITW do better for you?

J.