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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org