OpenJDK and the new plugin

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 04:03 +0000, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>   
>> 2009/1/17 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>>     
>>> I'm happy to announce that within the next few months as part of OpenJDK, we
>>> are Sun are committed to open sourcing our Java Web Start implementation and
>>> the new plug-in implementation for NPAPI capable browsers; those browsers
>>> including Firefox 3, amongst others.
>>>       
>> Woo! Great news!
>>     
>
> This is indeed really great!
>
> It has been a few months now. Is there already a roadmap for how and
> when the code will enter the repositories? Will it go into jdk6 first,
> or will it go through jdk7. Will it be part of the M4 milestone that has
> all the other 6u10 backported features?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>   

Hello Mark.

Since that posting, circumstances have changed and unfortunately there 
is no specific time line to share for the webstart and new plug-in code 
being available under open source.

-Joe