https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46513

On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:37 AM, David Wimsey wrote:

> Are you using the latest revision from the subversion repository (1.8-PRE)?  
> I can't find any com.sun.* references in a quick search.  I'm pretty sure 
> those issues were fixed some time ago, as I seem to recall some other bugs 
> that popped up after the switch over.
> 
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Ash, Bryan wrote:
> 
>> Developers:
>> 
>> I am currently working on an application that is utilizing Batik Rasterizer 
>> for exporting our graphic data.  I have noticed that a module used for JPEG 
>> exporting (specifically JPEGImageWriter in package 
>> org.apache.batik.ext.awt.image.codec.jpeg) uses Sun’s proprietary packages 
>> com.sun.*.  
>> 
>> In most cases, this seems fine.  However, in a recent revision of OpenJDK 
>> shipped on Ubuntu systems, they have updated some interfaces to now be 
>> classes.  Since Sun has the disclaimer that they are allowed to change code 
>> located in these packages without warning, we are at the mercy of what they 
>> choose to do.
>> 
>> I would like to submit a patch, rewriting the module to use java.* and 
>> javax.* instead of com.sun*, assuming the process hasn’t already been 
>> started by someone else.
>> 
>> Please reply at your earliest convenience and let me know if this is still a 
>> maintained application, and what process you have for patch submissions.
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> 
>> ---------------------------
>> Bryan Ash
>> Software Developer
>> Arris Group, Inc.
>> ---------------------------
> 

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