[Live-demo] uDig in OSGeoLive 6.0 without JAI (and other java apps)

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Cameron,

So far only Geomajas seems affected but we need more testing to be sure 
about the other Java projects.

Cheers,
Angelos

On 07/23/2012 02:08 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Angelos,
> You have noted that Geomajas doesn't work with JAI moved into the 
> classpath. Do you know of other java applications also effected?
>
> In IRC a few hours ago, Jody mentioned the version of geotools being 
> used as a factor.
>
> I'm expanding this conversation out to a few other java project 
> contacts who may have ideas to add.
>
> On 23/07/2012 8:50 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are having trouble making uDig work on the live disk without 
>> custom jre.
>> After removing custom jre and copying JAI jars and binaries in 
>> openjdk folders uDig works great but this breaks some other java 
>> applications.
>>
>> We have 2 options:
>> 1. find a way for uDig to load JAI through a custom directory (even 
>> though an export LD_LIBRARY_PATH for a custom path did not work in 
>> Ubuntu)
>> 2. use a pure java implementation of uDig without JAI
>>
>> The open ticket is here: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/922
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Angelos
>>
>
>


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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos