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

[Joe Darcy]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/9/5 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>   
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/9/3 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> 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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>>> Ok so it appears Nimbus was in com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus for the
>>> proprietary JDK6 release (there are backwards compatibility hooks
>>> there instead in OpenJDK7).  So I just reversed that move for our
>>> version.
>>>
>>> Here's a webrev for the first Nimbus patch:
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/6591875/webrev/jdk.patch
>>>
>>> This is just Nimbus as first imported with the JIBX requirement.  It's
>>> already a big patch without bringing in all the Nimbus changes that
>>> occurred afterwards (there are 10 further changesets)  My plan is to
>>> backport each Nimbus-related changeset separately so that we
>>> correspond as closely as possible with OpenJDK7 (and the same goes for
>>> any pertinent future fixes).
>>>
>>> Does this look ok to push?  I've done a test build and was able to run
>>> a simple Swing application using the Nimbus look and feel
>>> (http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2009/04/09/nimbus-arrives/)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>       
>> Hello.
>>
>> Monday is a holiday in the US so I won't be able to start looking at this
>> until later next week.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>>     
>
> Ok, no problem.  Thanks for keeping me in the loop :)
>   

Andrew,

With the recent jcheck update, I'd like to get the HS upgrade in OpenJDK 
6 (at long last!!) and an OpenJDK 6 build promoted for the HS upgrade + 
security fixes before the Nimbus work goes back.  So I hope to start 
looking at the Nimbus changes next week.

Sorry for the delay,

-Joe