[fedora-java] java-devel with Swing virtual package

[Marcin Zajączkowski]

On 2010-08-09 22:46, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Marcin Zajączkowski <mszpak at wp.pl> [2010-08-08 04:26]:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have a java desktop application which needs java with Swing. In spec I
>> was using java-devel, but recently I was noticed by one of the users
>> that it's resolved (in mock build on Fedora 11) as java-1.5.0-gcj-devel
>> (which doesn't have swing).
>> I could change java-devel to java-devel-openjdk, but it would cause
>> problems with binary Java package from Sun.
>>
>> Do you have suggestion what could be used to get java-devel compatible
>> with Swing library?
>>
>>
> 
> What is the error you are getting? GCJ has swing classes:
> 
> $ jar tf /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj/jre/lib/rt.jar  | grep -i javax/swing | wc -l
> 1351

You are right. My post was based on a report one of the users of Jubler
package. I personally don't use gcj. I recompiled in on Fedora 12 with
java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-29.fc12.x86_64 and I've got:

    [javac] 5. ERROR in
/home/fedora/szpak/rpmbuild/BUILD/Jubler-4.1.3/src/com/panayotis/jubler/StaticJubler.jav
    [javac] a (at line 84)
    [javac]     new_window.setLocationByPlatform(false);
    [javac]                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    [javac] The method setLocationByPlatform(boolean) is undefined for
the type Jubler


Class Jubler extends JFrame. That method was introduced in Java 1.5. I
didn't dig deeper, but probably it's not implemented in gcj.


I will try with java-devel>=1.6.0. Sun binary package 0:1.6.0 and
OpenJDK 1:1.6.0 should satisfy that requirement and package should be
built properly in mock.
There could be problem for people with Sun Java 1.5, but it is after
EOL, so should be acceptable.


Thanks for your replies
Marcin