IcedTea-Web 1.8?

[Jiri Vanek]

Hello!

adding distro-pkg-dev meioing list as main discussions about ITW happens here.

On 9/28/18 11:48 AM, Richard Stollar wrote:
> Hello Jiri,
> 
>      I am involved in a project that has until now relied upon WebStart which as you will know has 
> been removed in Java 11. To solve our problems we are testing with IcedTea-Web as it looks quite 
> promising.

Should be. We had tried hard.
> 
>      Our problem lies in the fact that we use an extension JNLP embedded in our main JNLP(s) and 
> that is not currently supported in ITW-1.7. Is there a roadmap for 1.8 which, according to the WIKI 
> page, should include shared launchers.  Is this functionality in a development release?


I doubt. 1.8 should bring new native launchers, to avoid duplicated codebase for MS and Linux. Also 
to fix many persiting issues we have with shell (well, mostly bat) lunchers.

Unless what you descibe, works on linux, but not on Win, than it is not on roadmap. Still I have 
nothing against implementing it for both 1.8. and 1.7 (unless it have some side effects).

Do you mind to elaborate more what you need? If you can add support, even better. If somebody else 
should, can you prepare minimalistic reproducer?

However.. I think extensions are in some ways already supported.  So maybe issue si somewhere else?

HTH
  J.