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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

I am planning to do an alpha3 this weekend.
It would be great to have iso creation in this test too.


On 05/29/2012 09:23 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> 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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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos