By now I did not receive a single objection regarding the switch to Java
1.5 ... I understand that as agreement. So, I am going to update the
Java policy page soon, to reflect that by now Java 1.5, and not Java
1.3.1 anymore, is the official OOo baseline.
Thanks for your support
Kay
Kay Ramme wrote:
Hi OOo porters,
I am mailing you because I just recently started a discussion on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] regarding the OOo Java baseline. As Sun has open sourced Java
about 1 1/2 years ago to the OpenJDK project, and as this OpenJDK
recently become fully functional, I proposed to switch to the OpenJDK as
OOos Java baseline, as soon as it becomes available on all of OOos
platforms. Please see
http://tools.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=jdk&msgNo=230
While discussing that, I talked to Svante Schubert, who observed various
issues in OOos current Java libraries, some of them are checked in in
binary form, some being functional redundant etc. (please see Svantes
mail http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=22824).
Plan is, to clean that up before releasing OOo 3.0. In detail Svante
plans to replace the current Xalan XSLT processor with Saxon. Problem
is, that this requires at least Java 1.5, while the current baseline
still is the 1.3 (see
http://tools.openoffice.org/policies/java_usage.html).
I created an overview of OOo, its platforms and the availability of
OpenJDK respectively something similar. Please see
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenJDK
Unfortunately I have not any information on your platforms yet, so I
don't know, if raising the baseline to 1.5 would be compatible with your
platforms.
Please comment on a switch to OpenJDK in general, and if it can be
suitable for you.
Please also comment on raising the baseline to Java 1.5 for OOo 3.0,
ideally you would change the Wiki page according to the Java
used/available ... :-)
Thanks in advance
Kay
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