Project Proposal: JFX (original) (raw)

Richard Bair richard.bair at oracle.com
Fri Oct 28 18:43:36 UTC 2011

Hi,

I see it as being the same as with OpenJDK, in that: - The entire project will be buildable and runnable and usable on free software Good goal. I have a question regarding applets and webstart. Is the plan to keep those bits of code closed? If Oracle is releasing the code for JFX, it seems strange to think that keeping the deployment code closed would offer Oracle a competitive advantage. This affects the deployment story of JFX.

Adam mentioned at JavaOne (I don't remember the context) that plugin will go open source too. I don't have a timeline for that, though it is really a question for JDK as opposed to JavaFX.

- We are likely to have some encumbrances that require a closed module for the time being for the binaries that we ship of JavaFX, for the sake of performance and such (e.g. T2K for fonts) - We will continue to work hard to replace those bits with free code I hope that this is true for JFX, but OpenJDK has a mixed track record in this respect. Replacements were provided, but I don't see a strong and consistent push from Oracle to make the replacements as good as or better than the closed versions.

Really we want to get away from the binary non-free parts, but in some cases it requires a very large investment to get the free versions up to the level of the non-free ones. Believe me, I'd drop ductus tomorrow if open Pisces was ready to replace it.

Cheers Richard

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