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Geoserver-Devel, Jody,<br>
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As per email thread below, the OSGeo-Live project is looking for
guidance on what we should do regarding a migration to OpenJDK.<br>
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The brief facts:<br>
* Sun Java is not allowed to be packaged into future distributions
(like ubuntu, debian, or OSGeo-Live). Instead, users are expected to
download SunJava from Sun.<br>
* SunJava 7 will be based upon OpenJDK.<br>
* OpenJDK is reportedly much better than previous OpenJDK versions.<br>
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For OSGeo-Live:<br>
* OSGeo-Live v5.5 (released in March 2012) will be based upon the
older Xubuntu 10.04, so at a pinch, we can still use Sun java, (but
won't be able to accept security updates). For OSGeo-Live v6.0 (Sept
2012), we intend to use Xubuntu 12.04, and hence will only be able
to use OpenJDK.<br>
* OSGeo-Live is space limited, and we strongly prefer to only
include one flavour of java, otherwise we need to remove some of our
windows installers.<br>
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So bottom line is that java applications which wish to be included
in Linux distributions will need to support OpenJDK soon, and this
is coming to a head as we package OSGeo-Live.<br>
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Questions for Geotools developers:<br>
1. Do geotools based applications work on OpenJDK now?<br>
2. Is it possible to migrate geotools based applications to OpenJDK?<br>
3. Can such migration happen before Feb 2012 (for OSGeo-Live 5.5)?<br>
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We can help with testing packaged applications, but are looking for
guidance from projects on where we should be focusing our energy.<br>
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On 31/12/11 19:34, Jody Garnett wrote:
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<div> An easy one is to add the extensions into libs/ext and then
run uDig without its "jre" folder so it uses the system default.
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<div>Geosolutions (i.e. Simone or Andrea) is the best point of
contact with respect to compatibility with OpenJDK. Personally I
was not going to bother until Java 7 or Java 8.</div>
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<div>You could also try talking to Andrea Antonello who at least
uses Linux and may be able to test?</div>
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<div>If you want you can also contact me officially as "GeoTools
Officer" and I will take the question to the geotools-devel
email list for you. However I expect I need a more than "Open
JDK" (this page for example does not give me much to work from <a
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<div>Jody Garnett<br>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Friday, 30 December 2011 at 9:02 PM,
Cameron Shorter wrote:</p>
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Jody and others,<br>
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Do you know if anyone has tested the viability of using
OpenJDK with JAI/ImageIO/ImageIO-EXT (with the geotools
based applications)?<br>
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What would be involved in testing this? Who would know
how?<br>
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On 30/12/11 20:29, Jody Garnett wrote:
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<div> Need to check out how well or poorly OpenJDK
does with the JAI / ImageIO / ImageIO-EXT combo for
geotools based apps. </div>
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Jody Garnett<br>
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<p style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168);">On Friday, 30
December 2011 at 6:48 PM, Brian Hamlin wrote:</p>
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<div>jsanz tells me that GeoNetwork is also
running well under OpenJDK for </div>
<div>him</div>
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<div>let this thread be an entrypoint for
Java-app contacts to express their</div>
<div>enthusiasm, dismay, pain, resignation
or otherwise on the adaptation</div>
<div>of an OpenJDK-only LiveDVD release</div>
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<div>best regards from Berkeley, California</div>
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<div>==</div>
<div>Brian Hamlin</div>
<div>GeoCal</div>
<div>OSGeo California Chapter</div>
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