Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by PaulFrields: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Java?action=diff&rev2=76&rev1=75 The comment on the change is: Editorial pass ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ === IcedTea === - This release of Fedora includes the IcedTea environment. IcedTea is a build harness for Sun's OpenJDK code that replaces encumbered parts of OpenJDK with Free Software replacements. IcedTea provides a more complete, compatible environment than GCJ, including support for building and running bytecode up to the 1.6 level. There are a few caveats that users of IcedTea should be aware of: + This release of Fedora includes the '''IcedTea''' environment. '''IcedTea''' is a build harness for Sun's OpenJDK code that replaces encumbered parts of OpenJDK with Free Software replacements. '''IcedTea''' provides a more complete, compatible environment than GCJ, including support for building and running bytecode up to the 1.6 level. Users of '''IcedTea''' should be aware of a few caveats: * there is no ppc or ppc64 support; ppc and ppc64 users should continue to use GCJ * there is no support for the Java sound APIs @@ -13, +13 @@ === Handling Java Applets with IcedTea and gcjwebplugin === - The Fedora IcedTea packages also include an adaptation of gcjwebplugin that allows running untrusted applets safely in a web browser. This is packaged as {{{java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin}}}. + The Fedora IcedTea packages also include an adaptation of `gcjwebplugin` that runs untrusted applets safely in a web browser. The plugin is packaged as {{{java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin}}}. - * gcjwebplugin has no support for the bytecode-to-Javascript bridge, so applets that rely on this bridge will not work + * The `gcjwebplugin` adaptation has no support for the bytecode-to-Javascript bridge, so applets that rely on this bridge will not work. - * gcjwebplugin's security policy may be overly restrictive; to enable restricted applets, run {{{firefox -g}}} in a terminal window to see what is being restricted, then grant the restricted permission in {{{/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0/jre/lib/security/java.policy}}} + * The `gcjwebplugin` security policy may be overly restrictive. To enable restricted applets, run {{{firefox -g}}} in a terminal window to see what is being restricted, then grant the restricted permission in {{{/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0/jre/lib/security/java.policy}}} === java-gcj-compat === -- Fedora-relnotes-content mailing list Fedora-relnotes-content@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-relnotes-content
