I do not know in which JDK 6 it was you saw these files but I doubt it
was an OpenJDK.
These files are closed source, so could not be in OpenJDK and in any case
are not part of the Java SE spec.
If you need these classes you will need to use an Oracle JDK download,
however
their use has been discouraged since Image I/O was added in JDK 1.4 over
10 years ago.
-phil.
On 6/26/2013 3:05 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
I was evaluating the OpenJDK 7 on a FreeBSD 9.1 system and was
surprised to discover that all the JPEG encoded/decode classes in:
com/sun/image/codec/jpeg
sun/awt/image/codec
are absent from the rt.jar. These missing 12 classes are part of the
OpenJDK 6 source release.
What is the reasoning for their absence? This seems to break
forward compatibility?
-- John Wolfe Xinuos, Inc.
