[El] gdal-java

[Viji V Nair]

Hi

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote:
>> what will the different collaborating projects be doing with respect to
>> Java Advanced Imaging? (a central piece to many java GISes)
>
> Big, big question indeed...
>
>> Besides its license issues (which may be worked around by having the
>> user transparently download and rebuild the sources), there is still
>> another issue I wasn't really aware of:
>> JAI will only build and fully run with Sun-Java, no OpenJDK.
>
> Yes, I am also under the impressions that there is no way around Sun
> JRE/JDK if you want JAI.
>
> Some time ago, I put together a tutorial on this on the wiki:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS#With_Sun.2FOracle_JRE_and_JAI_native_.28recommended_by_GeoServer.29
>
> That would already be great if we could at least package/automate part of it.
>
>> Ask OpenJDK to supply a stub for sun.awt.image.codec.JPEGParam?
>
> The IceadTea and classpath projects (http://icedtea.classpath.org) are
> good at providing what OpenJDK can't (or doesn't want to) provide. For
> example a FLOSS Java browser plugin.
>
> Maybe we could contact them about this?

Can you please open a "bug"? We will work with them to sort it out... :)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

>
> Red Hat is quite supportive of this project, so they may be interested
> in our needs. And this would benefit everybody beyond EL.
>
> However, may be they simply won't be able to do so (again for legal reasons)
>
>> Supply such a stub just for the purpose of compiling an unmodified JAI?
>
> Do you think we would have the legal right to do so?
>
>> Wait for Sun / now Oracle?
>
> Hmm, I don't feel them very FLOSS oriented at the moment.
> I would not bet on them moving in any direction that would make our
> life easier (although everything could happen).

This is not FLOSS oriented, and I don't see oracle is going to support
considering the new legal suite against google and other companies....

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Thanks
Viji
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