<AWT Dev> Fwd: RFR: make life easier for general java plugin

[Jiri Vanek]

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On 05/21/2014 05:02 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> IcedTea-Web [1] have now patch [3] from [2] thread,  to work pretty smooth with all Icedteas, all
> Openjdks and all Oracle javas.  It even do work with IBM java.
> However, we needed to include few lines of copypasted code [3] line 274-283. Well it is not so much,
> but is potentially dangerous.
>
> If this mini changeset -  http://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/oracle/jdk9/applet-minipatch/1/webrev/ may
> go in, it would be awesome and will make icedtea-web true Openjdk plugin. Do you think it is possible?
>
> Just note - there already was a discussion about unnecessary complex version of similar patch -  [4]
> thread. As result it forbid any touches to sun.applet package. However current webrev do not add any
> more visibility. It changes from private to package private. I hope it is much more suitable
>
> I sent this message originally to jdk9-dev.. It/I was wrong I guess. Sorry
>
> Best regards,
>    J.
>
> [1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web
> [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-May/027577.html thread
> [3]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/attachments/20140513/a47d6d04/allOpenJdk-0001.patch
>
> [4] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2014-January/000320.html
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