Status of IcedTea-Web + Java 11

[Jiri Vanek]

On 1/16/19 11:46 AM, John Olov Brötell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
Hi! Just few more lines to otherwise full Laurent lines.
> I am trying to understand what the status is regarding IcedTea-Web with Java 11.

ITW is known to be working with jdk11
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> 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. 

With some luck, you will never hit this issue. With more luck, JDK11 will get the EDT fixed.
Otherwise you can live with jdk12.
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> 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?

If you will do any jdk11+ friendly patches, please contirbute.  There is quite a few itw+jdk11 knwon
users, on both windows and linux (and some macks), so the wider audience is definitely beneficial.
> 
> If IcedTea-Web is not currently working with Java 11, are there plans to get there?

Plan is to keep it working on jdk8 as long as possible, together with modular JDK support.
On windows, the bat launchers are really not jdk11 ready. The native launchers however should solve
it for ever, with theirs pros and cons.
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> 
> Kind regards,
  J.


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