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

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 05:18:24 PDT 2011


Thanks Thierry. I'm passing your comments onto osgeo-Live list...

On 10/08/11 12:38, Thierry Badard wrote:
> Cameron,
>
> GeoKettle requires sun jre 1.5 or greater. It already uses the jre installed with the system, so it will not save extra space for other packages. If the jre used by UDig conforms to this requirement, it will be OK.
>
> GeoKettle has not been tested extensively with open-jdk, but it is known to not work well with it.
>
> Th.
>
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>
> Le 2011-08-09 à 21:18, cameron.shorter at gmail.com a écrit :
>
>> Thierry,
>> Would you mind responding to this email on behalf of: geokettle
>>
>> 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
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>>
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