Regarding icedtea-web builds

[brahmam]

Hi Jiri Vanek,

Thanks for providing the details.

1. Thanks for the link. Hope my wish to contribute will become realty.. :-)

2. Understood. Is any help pages/documents available in order to understand
the differences between webstart and ITW. It is interesting as well to know
the special features offered in ITW.

      a). ITW follows JSR-56 specifications JNLP and API as part of
implementations?
      b). Once we have ITW in Windows, do we require openjdk
installed/configured in class path in order to launch JNLP through javaws
available in ITW?
      c). We currently have JNLP file which is being launched with
webstart, can that file be directly launched with ITW?
If not what are the changes we expect to make launch with ITW?

3. Ok. So means if we have SUSE enterprise support then the issues will be
taken as priority to fix and after release windows binaries/installers
accordingly?

If we fix any issue, after reviewing can that be directly pushed to ITW
repository and after generate builds?

Thanks in advance!

Regards
Sreeram


On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, 20:26 Jiri Vanek, <jvanek at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 08/08/2018 04:43 PM, brahmam wrote:
> > Hi Jiri Vanek
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the details..
> >
> > Can we consider this icedtea-web an alternate to webstart?
> >
>
> Yes. It is intention of ITW to be javaws replacement.
> > 1. Can you please guide me with the help documents/best practices in
> order to use icedtea-web.
> Please see https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web ; if something
> will be missing, I will be
> happy to enhance it (or you can :) ) so future requests will have the
> reame ready:)
>
> > 2. Can you please guide me with the guidelines  to use icedtea-web in
> order to migrate from webstart.
>
> ITW, although being javaws implementation, is nearly fully specification
> compliant. *nearly*,
> unluckily:(  Compared to oracle javaws reference implementation, there are
> many corner cases when
> those two implementations are not aligned.  Some parts of oracle javaws
> reference impementation are
> simply not applicable to completely different design of ITW.  Others are
> simply missing. On
> contrary, ITW have many very specific features.
>
> > 3. I understand icedtea-web is an open source software, how is the
> support works incase of any
> > issues while using icedtea-web.
>
> Direct support is bad. When bug arrives, I or some of my colleagues in
> OpenJDK usually fixes that.
> But sometimes not.  Really depnds. Our cycles in ITW are limited.
> The most common support you can get is via distribution support. Eg Red
> Hat Enterprise linux or SUSE
> enterprise are contributors to ITW and OpenJDK itself. If you have theirs
> support, we usually fix
> the ITW for you on demand.
> Luckily, you can clone the source, fix on your own (debugging tutorial is
> on that wiki). I will be
> happy to review your patch.
>
>
> HTH.
> J.
>
> >
> > Thank you in advance!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sreeram
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, 19:56 Jiri Vanek, <jvanek at redhat.com <mailto:
> jvanek at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 08/08/2018 04:15 PM, brahmam wrote:
> >      > Hi to All!
> >      >
> >      > May I know is it the good channel to discuss about icedtea-web?
> >      >
> >      > If yes, would like to know the link/location where icedtea-web
> builds can be downloaded?
> >      >
> >      > Regards,
> >      > Sreeram
> >
> >     This is correct list.
> >     Currently ITW do not offer binary releases for linux. But with
> plugin dead and rewritten lunchers,
> >     this is likely to change with ITW 8.
> >
> >     ITW ave only src releases now and windows binary. The last one is:
> >
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2017-December/039064.html
> >
> >     J.
> >
> >     --
> >     Jiri Vanek
> >     Senior QE engineer, OpenJDK QE lead, Mgr.
> >     Red Hat Czech
> >     jvanek at redhat.com <mailto:jvanek at redhat.com>    M: +420775390109
> >
>
>
> --
> Jiri Vanek
> Senior QE engineer, OpenJDK QE lead, Mgr.
> Red Hat Czech
> jvanek at redhat.com    M: +420775390109
>
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