OpenJDK and the new plugin (original) (raw)

Andrew John Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Mon Jun 8 14:42:57 PDT 2009

2009/6/8 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>: > Mark Wielaard wrote: >>>> Hi Joe, >>>> 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? >>>> Thanks, >>>> Mark >>>>>> Hello Mark. >> 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. >> -Joe > We'd better keep hacking on that replacement then...

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