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

[Jan Drewnak (52north)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: live-demo-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:live-demo-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:14 AM
> To: live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] OSGeoLive proposal to replace Sun's default JRE/JDK
> with custom JRE
> 
> On 10/08/11 11:12, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >
> > 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?
> > Would you anticipate we might run into any stability issues?
> > Will this proposal help your project save any space?
> > Any other thoughts?
> > Please CC responses to live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
> >
> 
> PS: as far as I'm aware, the list of OSGeo-Live java projects is:
> 52nSOS
> 52nWPS
> 52nWSS
> atlasstyler
> deegree
> geokettle
> geomajas
> geonetwork
> geopublisher
> geoserver
> gvsig
> kosmo
> postgis
> rasdaman
> udig
> zoo-project
> 

52North WSS works with both, SUN or OpenJDK. The JRE should be sufficient. I also would prefer not to link to the bundled JDK/JRE of another project.

Jan


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