Peter Robinson (Fedora project volunteer) then started an icedtea-web build on ARM based on the above, which went fine.

I decided to try icedtea-web with OpenJDK7 on ARM. I only had access to an F15 machine so I had to force install the F17 OpenJDK RPM (it works other than where -lpng would be needed). Here is the result — the IcedTea-Web plug-in running with Midori on Fedora ARM!

IcedTea-Web plug-in working on ARM

Now to wait for Andrew Haley’s JIT work to go in, to make it run faster

• Fixes:
• PR820: Firefox 10 and above crashes when LiveConnect is heavily used
• PR838: IcedTea-Web plugin crashes with chrome browser when javascript is executed

Full notes with bug ids are available in the NEWS file:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/file/ab7e8272d45d/NEWS

Available for download here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.1.5.tar.gz

Build instructions are here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web

SHA256 sum:
ab5c34a9dc6bff48baf1f1d1a34bf54bfb954ad93ee9e7e44d642fa991bcc919 icedtea-web-1.1.5.tar.gz

Thanks to everyone who helped with this release:
Matthias Klose
Denis Lila
Omair Majid
Thomas Meyer
Jiri Vanek

New features and important bug fixes include:

• New features:
• Signed JNLP support
• Support for client authentication certificates
• Cache size enforcement now supported via itweb-settings
• Applet parameter passing through JNLP files now supported
• Better icons for access warning dialog
• Security Dialog UI revamped to make it look less threatening when appropriate
• Bug fixes:
• Common:
• Plug-in/Web Start can now handle corrupted cache
• PR742: IcedTea-Web checks certs only upto 1 level deep before declaring them untrusted.
• Plug-in:
• PR852: Classloader not being flushed after last applet from a site is closed
• PR820: Firefox 10 and above no longer crashes when LiveConnect is heavily used
• MIME descriptions for Java 7 are now defined
• Build against mozilla-plugin.pc is now supported
• Web Start:
• PR618: Can’t install OpenDJ, JavaWebStart fails with Input stream is null error.
• PR766: javaws fails to parse a node that contains CDATA
• PR765: JNLP file with all resource jars marked as ‘lazy’ fails to validate signature and stops the launch of application
• PR808: javaws is unable to start when missing jars are enumerated before main jar
• Close the splashscreen in case of error (not just successful launch).

Full notes with bug ids are available in the NEWS file:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/58c02a3ace5d/NEWS

Available for download here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.2.tar.gz

Build instructions are here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web

SHA256 sum:
3f8d22b655df207409dd3451ba02907f61a12ac051e4df4d44bb5ed47c4f778d icedtea-web-1.2.tar.gz

Thanks to everyone who helped with this release:
Danesh Dadachanji
Lars Herschke
Andrew Hughes
Matthias Klose
Denis Lila
Omair Majid
Thomas Meyer
Saad Mohammad
Andrew Su
Jiri Vanek

What’s new in 1.0.6 and 1.1.4:

• RH742515, CVE-2011-3377: IcedTea-Web: second-level domain subdomains and suffix domain SOP bypass

The following people helped with this release:
Omair Majid

Checksums:
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Download links:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.0.6.tar.gz
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.1.4.tar.gz

After extracting, it can be built as per instructions here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web

IcedTea-Web 1.0.5
IcedTea-Web 1.1.3

These are maintenance releases and the main motivation for pushing the releases is to make the Elluminate Web Start application work again.

Fixes in 1.0.5:

• Plug-in:
• PR749: sun.applet.PluginStreamHandler#handleMessage(String) really slow
• Common:
• PR768: Signed applets/Web Start apps don’t work with OpenJDK7 and up
• PR794: IcedTea-Web does not work if a Web Start app jar has a Class-Path element in the manifest (e.g. Elluminate)

Fixes in 1.1.3:

• Plug-in:
• PR782: Support building against npapi-sdk as well
• Common:
• PR794: IcedTea-Web does not work if a Web Start app jar has a Class-Path element in the manifest (e.g. Elluminate)

Build instructions are here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web

SHA256 sums:
ccfed2fc6fadf6ce42df43558252b0f02a8f5ed99c24e3eb64b4ca0e0d82a6c2 icedtea-web-1.0.5.tar.gz
012390dfa8bb9a4b17b30640dfc21011c848f5017d2a21d945e933f5d514edb3 icedtea-web-1.1.3.tar.gz

Thanks to Omair Majid for help with this release!

This is a maintenance release and contains bug fixes. Furthermore, this release also adds support for use with Java 7 (IcedTea7).

Fixes include:

• Plug-in:
• PR749: sun.applet.PluginStreamHandler#handleMessage(String) really slow
• RH718693: MindTerm SSH Applet doesn’t work
• Common:
• PR768: Signed applets/Web Start apps don’t work with OpenJDK7 and up
• PR769: IcedTea-Web does not work with some ssl sites with OpenJDK7
• RH734081: Javaws cannot use proxy settings from Firefox
• New (--with-jre-home=) option to allow use with only JRE installed

Available for download here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.1.2.tar.gz

Build instructions are here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web

SHA256 sum:
3051f3bf1e1d07ad7aaa28b204821a7c0631848d20ba7942fc23440e774649e4 icedtea-web-1.1.2.tar.gz

Thanks to Omair Majid for help with this release!

This is a regular maintenance release and contains some nice-to-have plugin bug fixes:

• PR721: IcedTeaPlugin.so cannot run g_main_context_iteration on a different thread unless a different GMainContext *context is used
• PR735: Firefox 4 sometimes freezes if the applet calls showDocument()
• RH691259: Midori sends a SIGSEGV with the IcedTea NP Plugin

If you are using IcedTea-Web 1.0.x with Firefox, it is recommended that you update to 1.0.3 as it is significantly more stable on Firefox 4.

Available for download here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.0.3.tar.gz

Build instructions are here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web

SHA256 sum:
2a3b907b471a67fdbae4ecc80b8425dfc7533e91f63f622d91501d4a64f07581 icedtea-web-1.0.3.tar.gz

Thanks to Omair Majid for helping with this release (patch reviews)!

At the time of writing this, the latest version of JDK6 (the proprietary Oracle version) is u25. The latest OpenJDK6 release right now is b22. So what is going on? Why is OpenJDK6 so far behind JDK6? Well, it is not.

The uXX numbering for the proprietary JDK is completely unrelated to the bYY releases of OpenJDK and any comparison of the two is meaningless. This image (taken from my RedHat Summit 2011 slides) explains how OpenJDK6 came into being:

The filled arrows going between JDK7 and OpenJDK7 indicate that the two sources are very similar (about 95% according to the last heard count). The empty arrows between OpenJDK7 and OpenJDK6 indicate backports.

OpenJDK6 was created from OpenJDK7 by removing Java 7 specific items from the code. Development of OpenJDK6 today largely consists of backporting fixes from OpenJDK7 and keeping security fixes up-to-date.

In terms of bug fixes, a comparison is not easily possible because the code bases differ and a bug that manifests in JDK6 may not manifest in OpenJDK6 and vice versa. OpenJDK6 bugs are fixed as they are encountered/reported.

In terms of features, JDK6 is in maintenance mode and therefore does not add features in its updates. The same applies to OpenJDK6. If any feature/API change were to be made to JDK6 in the future, OpenJDK6 would follow suite accordingly.

So the next time you see a higher update number of _either_ of JDK6 or OpenJDK6, promptly ignore it because it is like comparing apples and oranges

The slides are available on-line here.

As mentioned on slide 3 there, the slides were designed to be used in an audio-heavy presentation (with less text, more images). For guidance, they have draft quality notes at the end.

If you are the adventurous type and would like to help us try/test it, checkout, build and usage instructions are here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/?title=IcedTea-Web#Getting_IcedTea-Web

Instead of checking out from http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web (trunk), just use http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/

The 1.1 release is tentatively scheduled for May 6th 2011 and we will be fixing any major issues found, until then.