[Live-demo] Which version of openjdk should be included on OSGeo-Live 6.0?

[Cameron Shorter]

Frank,
I've be very keen to hear your feedback after you try 
osgeo-live-6.0alpha3, which I understand Angelos is going to build with 
OpenJDK 7 (instead of OpenJDK 6).

I think our biggest challenge for this 6.0 release of OSGeo-Live will be 
to see if we can get the Geotools based java applications working with 
OpenJDK 7.

Angelos,
Do you plan to build an alpha3 release soon?

On 29/05/2012 3:17 PM, Frank Gasdorf wrote:
> All right. I just tested it on the 5.5 Release and it fails, because of missing
>      javax.media.jai.JAI
> class. The rendering sub-system requires the Java advanced imaging and
> I guess there is no port for openjdk jet.
> Because this exception is thrown from a geotools renderer class all
> installations that requires geotools would fail. Could anybody confirm
> my point of view?
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
>
>
>
> 2012/5/29 Frank Gasdorf<fgdrf at users.sourceforge.net>:
>> Brian,
>>
>> please note, that uDig is shipped and installed with its own JRE. To
>> verify which JRE is used open the "About uDig" Dialog in the launched
>> Application (Menu ->  Help ->  About uDig". In the opened Dialog you
>> will find a "installation Details" Buttown left below, hit it and
>> switch afterwards to the "Configuration" tab.
>>
>> For the uDig installation (1.2.2) you will see something like this:
>>
>> java.home=/usr/lib/udig/jre
>> java.runtime.version=1.6.0_25-b06
>>
>> To test against the installed JRE please go through:
>>
>> * goto /usr/lib/udig with terminal/shell (cd /usr/lib/udig)
>> * type "sudo mv jre jreXXX" and type the password afterwards (user)
>> * start uDig again
>>
>> and in the same About Dialog mentioned above you will see
>> java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk   (or something like this, but
>> not the bundled JRE from /usr/lib/udig)
>>
>> Start testing the Walkthrough to verify everything is fine:
>> http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/udig_quickstart.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> 2012/5/29 Brian Hamlin<maplabs at light42.com>:
>>> Hi All-
>>>
>>>   you know that GeoTools and the Java apps are very important to this disk..
>>>   I personally want to get this resolved the best way it can. I also am not a
>>> Java dev,
>>> so I am missing a lot of the details under the surface...  however
>>>
>>>   I just micro tested uDig on the Live build Alpha 2.. all I tried was two
>>> things..
>>> Open a shape file, and open a TIF file.. and it worked fine !
>>>
>>>   openJDK-6
>>>
>>>   so there may be more going on, but it appears to me that we may be able to
>>> get
>>> away with openJDK-6. Maybe 7 too..
>>>
>>>   best regards from Berkeley, California
>>>
>>>
>>> ==
>>> Brian Hamlin
>>> GeoCal-ish
>>> OSGeo California Chapter
>>> 415-717-4462 cell
>>>
>>>
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