icedtea-web compatible with OpenJDK11

[Jim Douglas]

A Mac-compatible packaged version of IcedTea-Web would be extremely welcome, Jiri. Your Windows installer for 1.7.1 <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2017-December/039064.html> made it easy for me to do initial testing for transitioning customers from Oracle’s javaws to IcedTea-Web. With minor javaws.bat hacks to force JAVA_HOME and add several project jigsaw command-line flags, I’ve been able to successfully test some representative jnlp files on Windows with JDK 11. I’ve had no luck building <https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web> IcedTea-Web on my main development system, a Mac; the process has been an endless cycle of obscure build errors.

If you’re taking a shot at packaging a Mac-compatible distribution (for an upcoming IcedTea-Web 1.8?), I’d be very interested in stress-testing it here; we’re eager to give our customers a web start migration path when Oracle kills javaws.

(Reposted from the email address I used to subscribe to the list.)

> On Sep 7, 2018, at 6:39 AM, Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>  > My scientific users are mainly linux/mac addicts.
>>    Argh. Mac again.  That is area someone else will have to investigate.  I have never touched that,
>>    nor do have any experience in support.
>>    Mac can not live with untared binary?
>> I mainly installed openjdk-11.tar.gz & my built itw as zip and just fixed few paths in javaws shell (JAVA_HOME). It rocks !
>> Somebody else in the community could work on an openjdk installer + ITW desktop integration (icons as xdg-create-icons does not work and JNLP mime-type association) = out of scope.
>>    Once those few fixes are in, I think you will wish 1.7.2 release. I can definitely do it, and there
>>    landed few more good patches in past, and 1.8 is still far from release.
> 
> Hmmm... So rust launchers, when compiled on generic linux, and provided with JAVA_HOME should work for your mac friends?
> I would liek to understand this a bit more, to not kill the mac usecase.
> 
> 
> Current waterfall in rus lunchers (pushed yesterday) is like this:
> 
> liunx
> * jvm
>   - jvm set by properties
>   - jvm from java_home
>   - paths form  registry (no op)
>   - jvm from hardcoded path
>   - jvm from PATH //todo
> 
> win
> * jvm
>   - jvm set by properties
>   - jvm from java_home
>   - paths form  registry //todo
>   - jvm from hardcoded path (cygwin only)
>   - jvm from PATH //todo
> 
> And depndencies similarly (jsut fully todo):
> 
>   - deps frmo itw_home? (later)
>   - deps from hardcoded paths
>   - deps from local directory
>   - jvm from LIB_DIR/CLASSPATH
> 
> J.

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