The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion

[Maho NAKATA]

Hello Brian,

What do you think?

From: Kurt Miller <lists at intricatesoftware.com>
Subject: Re: OpenJDK6 and NetBeans: Who can use non-English fonts on NetBeans?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:03:14 -0500

> OpenJDK (6 or 7) doesn't yet come with a plugin or webstart. It is not
> clear if Sun will ever release them under GPL. The last semi-offical
> statement is here:
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2008-September/001283.html
>
> The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion.
>
> I believe that the lack of the plugin will prevent OpenJDK6 from
> building OpenOffice. :( Perhaps the approach Fedora took might work
> for a plugin replacement. See 16.3 for a description:
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Java.html
>
> It mentions the lack of support for LiveConnect. If I'm not mistaken
> that is need for the plugin to work in Firefox (memory rusty on this
> one). However it may be good enough to allow OpenJDK6 to build
> OpenOffice.

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