JavaAppLauncher

[David DeHaven]

>>> I might keep in mind there is still…
>>> https://bitbucket.org/infinitekind/appbundler
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>> If it's truly a fork of AppBundler then it doesn't use it. AppBundler has it's own launcher code, the executable it produces is also called JavaAppLauncher (and may have been based on this). The Java class uses a different package, so it doesn't rely on JavaAppLauncher in rt.jar.
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>> I've yet to find any actual uses of JavaAppLauncher... it was part of the initial port but the native portion is not built (except for the native methods in apple.launcher.JavaAppLauncher which is in osxlib.dylib). None of it has been touched since then except to change copyright dates.
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> As I remember there was an early port version of JavaAppLauncher that was supported by Mike Swingler. I may have a copy pulled of that somewhere. Then there was the Scott Kovatch and Greg Brown AppBundler project which came out with an Oracle sponsored version of JavaAppLauncher. The infinitekind project was forked off of that. If you are referring to the first pass Mike Swingler supported code I would say there is probably no use of that by anyone at this point, except maybe the copy I pulled which I'm not even using. Mike Swingler could probably tell you more.

I asked Mike offline before polling the list, whatever's in the JDK source is unused by anything on the Oracle side. I think it's just carry over from the JarBundler app that Apple had for Java 6 that we never implemented.

-DrD-