Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-java (9 mails)

[Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 01:29:54PM +0200, Michal Vyskocil wrote:
> Hallo all,
>
> as you might know, Oracle have announced the end of general support for
> jdk6 in November 2012. In order to have maintenable system, we have to
> follow and switch to jdk7 as well.
>
> I have just sumbitted the java-1_7_0-openjdk to Java:openjdk6:Factory -
> this release is based on icedtea-2.1, openjdk b147 and should be an
> equivalent of Oracle Java 7 u2. There are two minor problems preventing
> the succesfull submit into Factory
>
>  * it has to be rebuilt using java-1_7_0-openjdk
>  * BuildRequires:  -brp-check-suse and BuildRequires:
>    -post-build-checks are not things Factory checking team would accept
>
> I hope I will fix them this week and submit openjdk7 to Factory soon.
>
> The next step would be rebuild of all java packages with jdk7 and fix
> possible problems, but this will be a task for time, when openjdk7 will
> be done.

So java-1_7_0-openjdk has been submitted to Factory. See request 120720
[1]. There is only one copyright related issue, but I am sure we will
find a solution soon.

The next step is to build the java stack using jdk7. I've made a new
project Java:packages:JDK7 [2], where all those things will be tracked. From
what I can tell you, there are two common problems - JDBC, which got a
lot of new APIs and software manipulates with bytecode, which expect
some changes in code. Fortunatelly as Oracle have announced the early
drop of jdk6, most developers will be enforced to jdk7 soon.

[1] https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/120720
[2] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Java%3Apackages%3AJDK7

Best regards
Michal Vyskocil
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