[Live-demo] OSGeoLive proposal to replace Sun's default JRE/JDK with custom JRE

[Eike Hinderk Jürrens]

Hi!

Am 10.08.2011 03:12, schrieb Cameron Shorter:
>
>
> On 10/08/11 09:28, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Cameron if you were able to ensure the Sun JRE used included JAI /
>> ImageIO / ImageIO-Ext then the udig project could make use of it
>> directly (rather than using its own JRE as is done currently). An
>> easy way to check would be to use the bundled JRE from the udig
>> install script (rather than the sun jre) and see all the applications
>> still work.
>>
>> The procedure to make one of these JRE+Extensions is here:
>> http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/ADMIN/JRE+for+Linux -
>> I can ask on udig-devel if they have made a script for this one yet.
>>
>> Jody
>>
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> OSGeo-Live Java people,
>
> Does Jody's suggestion make sense for your project?
> Do you expect your project would work using UDig's custom java install?

If the default xubuntu tomcat is able to use it, I see no problem ;-).


> Would you anticipate we might run into any stability issues?

I agree with the other statements in this or another thread nearby to go
for using java from the package tree.


> Will this proposal help your project save any space?

NO


> Any other thoughts?

All projects, especially the web service projects, should try to use the
default xubuntu environment and bring not their own stuff.


> Please CC responses to live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
>

Kind regards,
Eike

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