#9510: icedtea-web-1.7
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Reporter: bdubbs@… | Owner: pierre.labastie
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.1
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by pierre.labastie):
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* headless support and reworked dialogues engine - This is major think.
The hart of ITW dialogs
was reworked.
* most of the dialogues have now (working!) remember/remember per doc
|code-base option with
some good afterwards manipulation options in itw-settings (inducing
desktop integration)
* greatest on it is, that ITW is again fully headless capable.
* all dialogues can be fully viewed and controlled from command
line
* if the target application is headless, ITW can happily live
without X (works also on
windows). If application isn't headless, itw will start it, but it will
probably crash.
* some more info at:
https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/devconf2017/remoteCmdlineTools/
* http 511 support - this protocol is older then my grand grand grand
parents, and so it is
useful. But, it is being still used. Its implementation was finally added
* with http 511 support come "cool" itw mode --browser. It launches
perfect html 3 compatible
browser :)
* jnlp protocol - support for jnlp:// and jnlps:// was added. No meter
how the ITW code changes
were simple, it is not easy to integrate.
* gnome-based Linuxes may find inspiration in fedora spec file:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/icedtea-web.git/commit/icedtea-
web.spec?id=b7bb0e5bee270399d76b05424e6b8843def6c946
* windows have it from msi
* all others must integrate on its own
* cache - again big touching. I recommend to clear all cache before
update or manually adapt your
offline apps. Now port is included in path (except defautl ones) and
nested jars are unpacked into
subdirectories. Also https is preffered over http.
* javascript and javafx made more close to usefulness
* experimental support for windows - yes open source javaws for windows
is here and is working.
Currently there are only .bat launchers and exist many known bugs, but
should be really good enough
for more thendeveloper preview. And a lot of will be done here in future.
Stay tuned!
* GUI and usage of PolicyEditor made much more user friendly
* JDK9. Indeed! Its here! Itw have nearly full capabilities with new
modular jdk. You can see the
story here:
https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/devconf2017/portingjavaInternalToJdk9/portingOfItwToJdk9-II.pdf
* you can build javaws with jdk9
* when you build javaws+plugin (even native) with jdk8 and it will work
fine with jdk9
* although ITW runs fine, the application it is running may not. But
really, it is no longer
ITW's fail.
* windows - javaws and plugin.jar cna be built (and run) in cygwin.
Built like this, they provide
redistribute-able windows binaries and installer.
* windows launchers are now bat files with its pros and (mostly) cons
(se future work below)
* you can not register .jnlp files to them (but commandlien work just
find, isn't it?
* jnlp protocol works great even with bats
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