[Live-demo] Re: Questions about geoserver, Java and OSGeo-Live

[Ian Turton]

On 10 August 2011 02:18,  <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian,
> Would you mind responding to this email on behalf of: geoserver
>
> 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?

I think so - UDig and GeoServer are both GeoTools based.

> Do you expect your project would work using UDig's custom java install?

I don't think Jody is proposing that, rather that the main JRE/JDK has
JAI/imageio added to it.

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

Should improve things at best and make no difference at worst.

> Will this proposal help your project save any space?

I don't think so - since we don't currently have our own JRE.

-- 
Ian Turton