Thanks for the response and the reminder that they were dropped from the
spec.
I did the ports of the Sun J2SE 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 for UnixWare and
OpenServer in the past. The jfc/Java2D demo was always a good exercise
for graphics and thread control. While the Java2D demo is not in
openJDK6, I grabbed a Java2Demo.jar file from the Oracle JDK6 and it ran
on the OpenJDK6
openjdk version "1.6.0_32"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_32-b27)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)
I have checked the OpenJDK6 source and the codec classes are there.
The missing class(es) showed up when attempting to run the Java2Demo.jar
with the OpenJDK 7u6.
-- John
On 6/26/2013 7:09 PM, Phil Race wrote:
I do not know in which JDK 6 it was you saw these files but I doubt it
was an OpenJDK.
These files are closed source, so could not be in OpenJDK and in any case
are not part of the Java SE spec.
If you need these classes you will need to use an Oracle JDK download,
however
their use has been discouraged since Image I/O was added in JDK 1.4
over 10 years ago.
-phil.
On 6/26/2013 3:05 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
I was evaluating the OpenJDK 7 on a FreeBSD 9.1 system and was
surprised to discover that all the JPEG encoded/decode classes in:
com/sun/image/codec/jpeg
sun/awt/image/codec
are absent from the rt.jar. These missing 12 classes are part of
the OpenJDK 6 source release.
What is the reasoning for their absence? This seems to break
forward compatibility?
-- John Wolfe Xinuos, Inc.
