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 MurrayMcAllister: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Java?action=diff&rev2=85&rev1=84 The comment on the change is: revising my previous revisions... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Sun has licensed the OpenJDK trademark for use in Fedora. * Shipping both OpenJDK 6 and IcedTea would have been confusing, and would have added size to the distribution. - IcedTea continues to provide autotools support ({{{autoconf}}}, {{{automake}}}, {{{libtool}}}, and so on), a portable interpreter for PowerPC and 64-bit PowerPC architectures, plugin support, Web Start support, and patches to integrate OpenJDK into Fedora. The IcedTea sources are included in the `java-1.6.0-openjdk` SRPM. + IcedTea continues to provide autotools support ({{{autoconf}}}, {{{automake}}}, {{{libtool}}}, and so on), a portable interpreter for PowerPC and 64-bit PowerPC architectures, plugin support, Java Web Start support, and patches to integrate OpenJDK into Fedora. The IcedTea sources are included in the `java-1.6.0-openjdk` SRPM. OpenJDK 6 is not Java compatible; work is underway to certify it Java compatible. @@ -28, +28 @@ Upstream OpenJDK does not provide a plugin. The Fedora OpenJDK packages include an adaptation of `gcjwebplugin`, that runs untrusted applets safely in a Web browser. The plugin is packaged as `java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin`. * The `gcjwebplugin` adaptation has no support for the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304021 bytecode-to-JavaScript bridge (LiveConnect)]. Applets that rely on this bridge will not work. Experimental LiveConnect support exists in the IcedTea repository, but is not ready for deployment in Fedora. - * The `gcjwebplugin` adaptation has no support for [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304031 signed applets]. Signed applets will run in untrusted mode. Experimental support for signed applets is present in the IcedTea repository, but it is not ready for deployment in Fedora. + * The `gcjwebplugin` adaptation does not support [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304031 signed applets]. Signed applets will run in untrusted mode. Experimental support for signed applets is present in the IcedTea repository, but it is not ready for deployment in Fedora. * The `gcjwebplugin` security policy may be too restrictive. To enable restricted applets, run the {{{firefox -g}}} command in a terminal window to see what is being restricted, and then grant the restricted permission in the `/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/security/java.policy` file. === Handling Java Web Start Applications === @@ -37, +37 @@ === Fedora and JPackage === - Fedora includes many packages derived from the [http://jpackage.org JPackage Project]. Some of these packages are modified in Fedora to remove proprietary software dependencies, and to make use of GCJ's ahead-of-time compilation feature. Use the Fedora repositories to update these packages, or use the JPackage repository for packages not provided by Fedora. Refer to the [http://jpackage.org JPackage website] for more information on the project, and the software it provides. + Fedora includes many packages derived from the [http://jpackage.org JPackage Project]. Some of these packages are modified in Fedora to remove proprietary software dependencies, and to make use of GCJ's ahead-of-time compilation feature. Use the Fedora repositories to update these packages, or use the JPackage repository for packages not provided by Fedora. Refer to the [http://jpackage.org JPackage website] for more information about the project, and the software it provides. [[Admonition("warning", "Mixing Packages from Fedora and JPackage", "Research package compatibility before you install software from both the Fedora and JPackage repositories on the same system. Incompatible packages may cause complex issues.")]] -- Fedora-relnotes-content mailing list Fedora-relnotes-content@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-relnotes-content
