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

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/9/12 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
> 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,
>

That's ok.  I was worried about this ending up in the next promoted
build as well, and causing too much of a change, so it's good that the
HotSpot stuff is finally ready.  It's pushing as I write this.
Note that this is just the first of the Nimbus patches (but the main
one) as I'd like to retain the OpenJDK7 history for it as closely as
possible.  So it's the original patch with an additional reversion
back to a com.sun package as in the proprietary JDK6 train.

Funny that Mark gets a few hours and my blog is reinstated, jcheck is
updated and the hg push issue is fixed :)

> -Joe
>



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