[Fwd: Re: Upcoming changes to JDK7 build process: JIBX]
Joseph D. Darcy
Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Thu Sep 3 10:28:53 PDT 2009
Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/8/31 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>
>> Without the JIBX build dependency, I would be happy for the Nimbus work to
>> be ported to OpenJDK 6.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>>
>
> The other immediate problem I see with this is that the OpenJDK
> version adds public API in the form of javax.swing.plaf.nimbus:
>
> http://builder.classpath.org/japi/openjdk7-openjdk6.html#pkg_javax_swing_plaf_nimbus
>
> This would need to be removed before Nimbus could be added to OpenJDK6.
>
Yes, I'm not familiar with the details of how Nimbus was implemented in
the 6 update release without java.* or javax.* API changes.
-Joe
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