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[Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

thanks for opening this topic ...

On Thursday 02 of October 2008 17:28:16 Martin Schlander wrote:
> 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.

Well, the term 'We will still provide a latest available Sun JVM' in my 
comment [1] was not clear. I meant, the we will continue to bring an updates 
for existing Sun JVMs. There was no drop of Sun Java for 11.1 and no 
discussion about it.

> 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.

So could be bnc#430401 marked as WONTFIX? Because openjdk is an equivalent of 
Sun Java 1.6.

> 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

That's a common problem of Sun Java [2] (and maybe another ones), because 
there's no x86_64 java plugin.

> 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.
No, but it's necessary to do some manuall work, like

zypper install java-1_5_0-sun-plugin
update-alternatives --config java
update-alternatives --config javaplugin

Maybe I (or someone else) could write a wiki page about switching to Sun Java 
in openSUSE ...

> 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 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...

Best regards
Michal Vyskocil


[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430401#c1
[2] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695
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