OpenJDK and the new plugin

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/6/8 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
> 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
>

We'd better keep hacking on that replacement then...
-- 
Andrew :-)

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