[Live-demo] OpenJDK Only for LiveDVD 5.5?

[Jody Garnett]

> Questions for Geotools developers:
> 1. Do geotools based applications work on OpenJDK now?
Not sure; even if they did without a build box configured with OpenJDK to ensure the library works in that environment it would not be considered a supported platform for production use. I always figure "demo" is almost more important then production use as it is a first impression.

By the same token I would not recommend projects based on GeoTools go live on OpenJDK without appropriate testing.

Perhaps the Geomajas guys could stand up a build box with OpenJDK? 
> 2. Is it possible to migrate geotools based applications to OpenJDK?
Yes; would required volunteer time; hardware to run a nightly build with that configuration and so on. I recently lost two weeks to a build box at my current work site that was incorrectly configured to use OpenJDK rather than Java 6. 
> 3. Can such migration happen before Feb 2012 (for OSGeo-Live 5.5)?
> 
> We can help with testing packaged applications, but are looking for guidance from projects on where we should be focusing our energy.
I do not think so; we would need hardware in place now.

Our developers are an even split between mac, linux and windows environments. As I understand it mac OpenJDK is not ready yet (with no sign of arrival); windows is troubled. 

I would wait for OpenJDK Java 7 to be released; and then set up a build box at that time.

Jody
> On 31/12/11 19:34, Jody Garnett wrote: 
> > An easy one is to add the extensions into libs/ext and then run uDig without its "jre" folder so it uses the system default. 
> > 
> > Geosolutions (i.e. Simone or Andrea) is the best point of contact with respect to compatibility with OpenJDK. Personally I was not going to bother until Java 7 or Java 8. 
> > 
> > You could also try talking to Andrea Antonello who at least uses Linux and may be able to test? 
> > 
> > If you want you can also contact me officially as "GeoTools Officer" and I will take the question to the geotools-devel email list for you. However I expect I need a more than "Open JDK" (this page for example does not give me much to work from http://openjdk.java.net/install/). 
> > 
> > --  
> > Jody Garnett
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday, 30 December 2011 at 9:02 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> > 
> > > Jody and others,
> > > 
> > > Do you know if anyone has tested the viability of using OpenJDK with JAI/ImageIO/ImageIO-EXT (with the geotools based applications)?
> > > 
> > > What would be involved in testing this? Who would know how?
> > > 
> > > On 30/12/11 20:29, Jody Garnett wrote: 
> > > > Need to check out how well or poorly OpenJDK does with the JAI / ImageIO / ImageIO-EXT combo for geotools based apps. 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Jody Garnett
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Friday, 30 December 2011 at 6:48 PM, Brian Hamlin wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > jsanz tells me that GeoNetwork is also running well under OpenJDK for 
> > > > > him
> > > > > 
> > > > > let this thread be an entrypoint for Java-app contacts to express their 
> > > > > enthusiasm, dismay, pain, resignation or otherwise on the adaptation
> > > > > of an OpenJDK-only LiveDVD release
> > > > > 
> > > > > best regards from Berkeley, California 
> > > > > 
> > > > > == 
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