prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

Tue Mar 5 13:04:24 UTC 2019

Hi,

jdk11 on windows has no jfxrt.jar, neither openjdk nor oracle-jdk.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Lars Herschke

Data-Service GmbH
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Jiri Vanek schrieb:
> I had just triple checked... although you are right, and fx is in lib/ext/fxrt.jar forjdk8,  ITW
> really do work also with lib/fxrt.jar.
> 
> HOWEVER - jdk11 runs only with lib/fxrt.jar...
> 
> What was your symptom enforcing  the patch change to jre/lib/ext?
> 
> If you really had to ahve this, then it have to be conditinal on JDK version.
> 
> J.
> On 3/5/19 11:32 AM, Lars Herschke wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> attached a patch that cause the following changes.
>>
>> acinclude.m4:
>> - configure-switch --with-jdk-home acts on windows
>>
>> Makefile.am:
>> - windows-fix for changeset 1565:7010aa9d9309
>> - fixes for make clean with native plugin disabled
>>
>> rust-launcher:
>> 1. Use cannonicalize from crate dunce, because std::fs:canonicalize
>>    return on windows unc-paths like this \\?\C:\foo. This paths doesn't
>>    work with spawn() from std::process::Command.
>> 2. Correct path for jfxrt.jar
>> 3. Use JRE-path instead of JDK-path from registry and don't panic if
>>    this regkey doesn't exist, because jfxrt.jar, rt.jar and nashorn.jar
>>    are only in the JRE-directory on openjdk. In addition users, that
>>    have only installed JRE don't have the JDK-regkey in your registry.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>>
>> Lars Herschke
>>
>> Data-Service GmbH
>> Beethovenstraße 2a
>> 23617 Stockelsdorf
>> Amtsgericht Lübeck, HRB 318 BS
>> Geschäftsführung: Wilfried Paepcke, Dr. Andreas Longwitz,
>>                   Dr. Uwe Szyszka, Dr. Hans-Martin Rasch
>> Tel. (0451) 49 00-188
>> Fax. (0451) 49 00-123
>> e-mail: lhersch at dssgmbh.de
>>
>>
>> Jiri Vanek schrieb:
>>> TYVM. Pushed.
>>>
>>> Prerelase binraries will be updated on demand.
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>>> On 2/25/19 10:39 AM, Olesya Gerasimenko wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> Please find attached the updated Russian translation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 22.02.2019 14:15, Jiri Vanek пишет:
>>>>> Hello all!
>>>>>
>>>>> Please see the pre-release of icedtea-web 1.8: https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/
>>>>> If you can push it through your cases, it would be  awesome. There are native portable builds for
>>>>> both win and Linuxes. There is also multiplatform portable build based on shell/bat launchers only.
>>>>> I had also updated (not released!) fedora builds to this pre - see "fedora" text file:
>>>>> While this prerelase is in testing, I would like to call alive translators - Russian and Czech - to
>>>>> update theirs translations in
>>>>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/file/tip/netx/net/sourceforge/jnlp/resources/. In
>>>>> addition, I will start backporting of non-native patches to 1.7 so 1.7.2 can follow 1.8 very soon.
>>>>> 1.8 will be released once translations are in place. Of course anything wrong reported with
>>>>> pre-released tarballs will be fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows testing:
>>>>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>>>>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.win.bin.zip
>>>>>   * itw-installer.msi
>>>>>   + icedtea-web-1.8pre.tar.gz (sources for custom builds - optional)
>>>>>   + https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/icedtea-web-docs/
>>>>>
>>>>> Linux testng:
>>>>>   * iccedtea-web-1.8pre.linux.bin.zip
>>>>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>>>>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.tar.gz (sources for distributions and custom builds - mandatory)
>>>>>   * fedora
>>>>>   + https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/icedtea-web-docs/
>>>>>
>>>>> Note for JRE search:
>>>>>   * windows shell scripts reads java_home or or registry
>>>>>   * linux shell scripts reads java_home or defualt system jdk
>>>>>   * native launchers reads in addition system paths
>>>>> TBH, I doubt I covered all combinations when I run my suites
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cases (if you have lack of them, but many of them may be already dead):
>>>>>   * https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web-Tests#javaws
>>>>>   *
>>>>> https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web-Tests#IcedTea-Web_webstart_.28javaws.29_test_applications
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Known bugs:
>>>>> 3705 ---     Webstarted application tries to load resources from server incorrectly
>>>>> 3704 ---     IcedTeaWeb doesn't run SAP PI web start interface - LAZY_CLASSLOADING_FAILED
>>>>> 3697 ---     Custom JRE/JDK within UTF-8 folder name ( key deployment.jre.dir in in
>>>>> deployment.properties ) are not properly handled
>>>>> 3689 ---     DownloadService2 not implemented
>>>>> 3672 ---     Classloader doesn't load jar correctly from JNLP extension
>>>>> 3461 ---    (still) Cannot run HP ILO4 remote console application
>>>>> Windows desktop shortcuts are suspected to not work with jdk11 and up
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Linux side, except native launchers and few bug fixes, not much changed. But for windows support
>>>>> this is giant leap to be finally proper replacement for oracle javaws.
>>>>>
>>>>> For 1.9 the plan is to remove plugin completely, and to move to github and under the wings of
>>>>> AdoptOpenJDK....
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking forward for both  positive and negative feedbacks
>>>>>    J.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
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