OpenJDK and the new plugin (original) (raw)

Mark Wielaard mark at klomp.org
Mon Jun 8 15:20:28 PDT 2009

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 22:42 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:

2009/6/8 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>: > Mark Wielaard wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 04:03 +0000, Andrew John Hughes wrote: >>> 2009/1/17 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>: >>>> >>>> I'm happy to announce that within the next few months as part of >>>> OpenJDK, we >>>> are Sun are committed to open sourcing our Java Web Start implementation >>>> and >>>> the new plug-in implementation for NPAPI capable browsers; those >>>> browsers >>>> including Firefox 3, amongst others. >>> >>> Woo! Great news! >> >> This is indeed really great! >> >> It has been a few months now. Is there already a roadmap for how and >> when the code will enter the repositories? Will it go into jdk6 first, >> or will it go through jdk7. Will it be part of the M4 milestone that has >> all the other 6u10 backported features? > > Since that posting, circumstances have changed and unfortunately there is no > specific time line to share for the webstart and new plug-in code being > available under open source.

We'd better keep hacking on that replacement then...

Yes indeed. I am happy people did keep hacking on the free replacements so that we have something for our user now that need an applet plugin or webstart functionality.

But I am somewhat confused about what this really means. Isn't there any commitment anymore with Sun to release the implementation of the webstart and new plug-in code?

What are the circumstances that changed? Is there anything the community can do to help?

Thanks,

Mark

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