IcedTeaWeb Roadmap

[Laurent Bourgès]

Phil,

I found the mail I sent in february related to AWTSecurityManager removal:
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2019-February/041034.html


Le ven. 19 avr. 2019 à 20:28, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> a écrit :

> 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.
>

I got the notification via awt-dev list, but did not have a look to webrev
yet. However if AppContext is going to be removed soon, I suspect it will
make ITW into troubles.

>
Maybe I should chime but Jiri, or any other official maintainer should as
it would be more appropriate.

AFAIK ITW uses several AppContexts and ITW helped to fix a longstanding
issue about AWT SequencedEvent...

Finally more ITW members should listen about JDK internal changes and
sometimes be involved in such bug reviews.

Thanks Phil,
Laurent


> 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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