On 09/22/2011 03:45 PM, opinali wrote:
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:58:59 AM UTC-4, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
It's about libraries that Oracle distributes, that used to be
signed and no longer are, and the effect this has on webstart.
With the important detail that these libraries are apparently, only
Java3D, which has been in the limbo of abandonware since 2004. Sun
open sourced it but never invested on it seriously anymore; and in
2008 Sun announced that it was abandoning Java3D for the second time,
pulling the little resources they had on Java3D to focus on JavaFX.
I'd say all this is true for other old Java media APIs like JAI.
My take is that Oracle just doesn't want to have any liability for
some old junk that definitely has a significant potential of security
issues because it contains native code.
I add that JWS is good, but it's always a bad idea, for production, to
rely upon artifacts not under your control.
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