Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Hi Troy,
> 
> thanks for the info.
> 
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:
> [...]
>> Discussion Topic: Java - when will we upgrade to Java 1.6?
>> Conclusion:  Many scientific programs really need us to update to java 1.6,
>> the biggest name is dCache.
>> We will put the latest java 1.6 into testing and let people test it for a
>> month.  If we don't have any show stoppers, we will push it out on December
>> 1, 2008
> 
> Maybe OpenJDK6 is the way to go here, instead of using the SUN RPMs?
> 
> There are EPEL RPMs - including the browser plugin for x86_64. And just
> imagine signed packages and painless updates...
> 

Yes, that is something I brought up.  Well, I didn't bring up the EPEL 
rpm's, but we did talk a bit about openJDK and that the browser plugin 
should be open sourced by the end of the year.  I haven't been keeping 
up with the openjdk as much as I used to.  Is the plugin open sourced 
yet?  Or are they still pulling the binary out of sun's packages?

There were a couple problems.
The first is that with the openjdk it would require much more testing 
before people would feel comfortable.  And many of the experiments 
wanted it sooner than later.
I'm also not sure if it works or builds on SL4, which it is needed on.

I personally am hoping that openjdk makes it into RHEL 5.3, or at latest 
  5.4.  That would be wonderful.  But I have no idea if they will.

Troy
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