Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Daniel Fuhrmann <schoppehaller@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2008 17:28:16 schrieb Martin Schlander:
> It's my understanding that 11.1 is planned to ship with openjdk 1.6
> installed by default and with (only) Sun Java 1.6 available via non-oss
> repo. I'd like to discuss this, as it causes some major problems - at least
> for Danish users.
>
> 1) With Danske Bank - the largest Danish bank, home banking only works
> properly with Sun Java 1.5. With Sun Java 1.6 some core functionality
> doesn't work and with openjdk 1.6 you can't even login at all.
>
> 2) Another home bank system, common to many smaller Danish banks, won't
> work with Sun Java 1.6 on x86_64 systems (even with 32-bit firefox+32-bit
> java, even though it does work on full 32-bit systems with Sun Java 1.6).
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288750
>
> In summary, 11.1 will be unusable for Danske Bank customers and most x86_64
> users without Sun Java 1.5 available - making it very difficult to
> recommend to anyone.
>
> I'm certain these problems of critical java applets, that only work
> (properly) with Sun Java 1.5, exist for very many users in very many
> countries.
>
> I suggest to include Sun Java 1.5 in the non-oss repo for 11.1. And to make
> this repo available for testing before release.

I've installed sun's java 1.5 and 1.6 from the 11.0 repo manually and it 
worked.

I downloaded it and integrated the local directory into yast.

> I also encourage anyone who's dependant on Java applets to test this stuff
> ASAP. When 11.1 is released, it's too late to do anything about it...



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