icedtea-web compatible with OpenJDK11

[Laurent Bourgès]

Hi Jim,

As I am not a windows bat file expert and I proposed to rewrite IcedTea-Web
batch files to include jigsaw args, I am really eager to see your modified
files.

It will help me in that effort to better support windows.

For mac, I made tests, but packaging ITW as a native installer/launcher or
doing desktop integration is too much for me. Somebody else should step up.

PS: AdoptOpenJDK could provide binary packages (win/mac/linux...) WITH ITW
included and that would be enough for early OpenJDK11 release.

Cheers,
Laurent


Le ven. 7 sept. 2018 à 20:52, Jim Douglas <jimdouglas at mac.com> a écrit :

> 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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