<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Geoserver-Devel, Jody,<br>
<br>
As per email thread below, the OSGeo-Live project is looking for
guidance on what we should do regarding a migration to OpenJDK.<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To my knowledge there has been no effort to support OpenJDK, it's not used in production in any serious place I know of and</div>
<div>last time I checked graphics performance was very poor, not to mention resulting in poorer quality maps.</div><div>Again afaik, none of the developers is using it, nor the build server is testing it.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Also please consider that both Geotools and GeoServer are likely to stay on JDK 6 for quite some time (JDK 6 EOL is</div><div>June 2012, my guess is that we'll stay on it for another 6-12 months past that), so any </div>
<div>improvement in OpenJDK 7 won't help us much.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Given that business requirements are still squarely on Oracle JDK we'd need some OpenJDK "champion" that takes care of</div>
<div>supporting that enviroment, finds all the changes necessary to make the apps work reliably on it, and pushes to get the</div><div>same in the code base. If someone shows up that wants to carry on the task I'll be happy to help with a portion of my </div>
<div>weekend spare time hours.</div></div><div>Another option is that the PSC of both projects votes to start supporting OpenJDK, dedicating the effort to get there and</div><div>the continous effort to keep it there (who wants to try the build on both JDK 6 and OpenJDK before committing?... hmmm)</div>
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