Re: [Geoserver-users] JAI and IMAGEIO on JRE11

2019-06-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Joe we as a community have been looking at what it will take to replace JAI (as it was largely abandonded by Oracle). See review of open source alternatives and some planning here , recently we have had some progress (largely on my own time as

Re: [Geoserver-users] JAI and IMAGEIO on JRE11

2019-06-05 Thread Andrea Aime
On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 5:31 PM Joe Murphy wrote: > > https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2015/03/why-we-are-abandoning-imageio-and-jai-for-image-support-in-our-commercial-java-code/ > We took a similar road several years ago when imageio-ext and jai-ext have been created. There is really no reason

Re: [Geoserver-users] JAI and IMAGEIO on JRE11

2019-06-05 Thread Joe Murphy
Hi Jody, That explanation was pretty good, and i was able to understand it (I'm not a senior developer). That might make a great NOTE for the webpage right there. So does that mean i will lose the rendering speed increase i got with the extension? Is the Pure Java JAI faster on JRE11 than JRE8?

Re: [Geoserver-users] JAI and IMAGEIO on JRE11

2019-06-04 Thread Andrea Aime
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:50 PM Joe Murphy wrote: > https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/production/java.html > > Does the "outdated" at the bigining of the title mean with the newest > builds of .war that i will no longer need to post install the JAI and > IMAGIO? or is support now gone? >

Re: [Geoserver-users] JAI and IMAGEIO on JRE11

2019-06-03 Thread Jody Garnett
We ship GeoServer with a pure java version of JAI. On Java 8 and older versions an extension mechanism was provided which allowed JAI to be installed as an "extension" to the JRE (and shared between applications). Companies like Sun and Apple used this as an opportunity to provide a copy with

[Geoserver-users] JAI and IMAGEIO on JRE11

2019-06-03 Thread Joe Murphy
Hello All, I am currently using the latest GeoServer .war Build in a Docker Image; using Debian latest, Tomcat latest, and JRE8. Its been working flawless for some time now, and i have been asked to move to OpenJDK JRE11. I was reading up on JAI and IMAGEIO and and came across this link in