[Fwd: Re: Upcoming changes to JDK7 build process: JIBX]

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/9/3 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
> 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
>

I'll take a look either today or tomorrow and see if I can produce
something from the changesets that would work for 6.  If the javax.*
classes are just a layer on top of the Sun implementation, it should
be easy enough to just remove them.  I'm guessing this means Nimbus is
part of the spec. for JDK7.  If only such processes were more open...
-- 
Andrew :-)

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