On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Phillip Moore <[email protected]>wrote:

> At the request of the ServiceMesh folks, I've started working on
> integrating the core Java infrastructure with EFS 3, and this creates some
> interesting new problems.
>
> First of all, I've been able to cleanly integrate the Oracle/Sun JRK/JRE
> releases, which are very straight forward (basically just unpack the
> distribution into the install tree).    These can be downloaded form
> openefs.org, by creating the "java" metaproj, and setting it up for
> download in the same way as all the other metaprojs, and then running:
>
>     efs download release java sunjdk 6u23
>     efs download release java sunjre 6u23
>
> Here I followed the metaproj/project convention we used in EFS 2, although
> you could certainly argue that we should be maintaining the Oracle/Sun
> binary only releases in the oracle metaproj.   Table that for now....
>

Actually, the more I think about this, given the fact that we are encoding
the vendor name into the project anyway, and given the fact that both Oracle
and IBM have numerous Java packages available, I think it makes sense to
install these in vendor-specific metaprojs, and limit the "java" metaproj to
open source products which we can redistribute (if in fact, we can really do
that -- JBoss is OSS, but you can't get it without logging in and maybe
accepting a license).

For now, I'm leaving these where they are (no risk -- noone's using this
stuff yet, and won't be anytime soon), but I think it will make our lives
easier if this stuff is integrated with the "oracle" and "ibm" metaprojs.
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