Status of IcedTea-Web + Java 11

[Laurent Bourgès]

Hi,

Le mer. 16 janv. 2019 à 14:51, John Olov Brötell <
john.olov.brotell at idainfront.se> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to understand what the status is regarding IcedTea-Web with
> Java 11.
>
> According to the mailing list archives, people have been trying out
> IcedTea-Web with Java 11 some time back, but encountered issues, and there
> is also a bug https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8204142 linked
> from the wiki under "EDT on JDK 11 is broken". That bug has been resolved
> only on Java 12 as I understand it. We are of course trying to figure out
> if IcedTea-Web could be a drop in replacement for WebStart as we move on
> from Java 8 to Java 11.
>
> I realize that we could try everything out for ourselves, but I still
> wanted to see if anyone had any recent experience with the IcedTea-Web +
> Java 11 combination to share. Is it working now?
>

I made tests in October... and itw 1.7 worked on linux/mac using shell
launcher. I made a ITW patch to fix the EDT issue and helped fixing the
forementioned jdk bug.

For windows, the batch launcher is still not compatible with jdk11 (missing
module args) but I hope I can fix it soon...


> If IcedTea-Web is not currently working with Java 11, are there plans to
> get there?
>

It is in progress, please test first your application with itw 1.7 (head)
on linux ...

ITW 1.8 will have new native (rust) launchers that should work better in
the future.

Laurent
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