[Live-demo] Can we remove OpenJDK from OSGeo-Live?

[Jody Garnett]

>
> You read correctly. Here's the reason, we are super tight on space this
> version and some of the Java projects only work on Sun Java right now.
> So will we've been bugging them to make OpenJDK compatible it simply
> isn't reality. We do mean both jdk and jre since sun java is on there
> and set as the default java (I think).
>
> Yes on principal we want projects to go 100% open, maybe some open java
> champions can help push that for version 5.5 in 6 months.
>

I will underline the fact that open java is massive testing burden and
unlikely to happen.

There is another testing burden of Java Extensions where we may be able to
make some progress...

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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