IcedTeaWeb Roadmap

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Fri Apr 19 18:28:06 UTC 2019


I have no idea what those failures might be, as AppContext is JDK internal,
but there is a fix under review to continue towards complete removal of 
AppContext
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2019-April/015143.html
If this is a legitimate problem for ITW you should chime in there.

-phil.

On 4/19/19 6:03 AM, Laurent Bourgès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for information and your efforts, it is very promising in 
> the short term.
>
> I am looking forward testing AdoptOpenJDK builds providing IcedTeaWeb 
> to end users (win, mac, linux).
>
> FYI I tested ITW 1.8 with OpenJDK13 2 month ago and it fails due to 
> recent changes in AWT (security & app context refactoring).
>
> I wonder if such OpenJDK refactorings will make it harder or 
> impossible to maintain JavaWebStart outside of the JDK in the future.
> It would help to use continuous integration against latest OpenJDK 
> builds to detect such incompatibilities.
>
> Cheers,
> Laurent



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