[fedora-java] jmol and jspecview oddity

[Jiri Vanek]

On 04/08/2014 10:10 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I noticed that the applet JARs in jmol and jspecview contain classes in the sun.applet package.  How
> is this supposed to work, considering that sun.* packages are restricted?  Do you think this is just
> accidental bundling?
>
> I haven't investigated the build process in detail, but there is a dependency on icedtea-web, and
> the class files are mostly identical to those in some icedtea-web version, except for
> jmol-14.0.11-1.fc21.noarch and jspecview-2-7.1464svn.fc21.noarch, which differ in the
> sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer class (so we currently do not provide matching source code, I think).
>
> (I found this while checking for references to sun.misc.Ref, which will be removed in OpenJDK 9.
> Coincidentally, icedtea-web has already been fixed.)
>
Och,. this scares me!

Maybe better is to ask jmoll developers - as we have been cooperating with them long ago when itw 
was started to be developed....

the sun* packages in jmol actually does not meter. Only sun* and netx* packages *inside* itw do have 
  unrestricted access.

anyway - interesting to know. I will look at this more deeply when time permits.


J.