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What are the plans for open sourcing Suns plug-in and Web Start implementations?

April 26, 2017implementations plans PLUG plug-in Sourcing Sun Suns web

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What are the plans for open sourcing Suns plug-in and Web Start implementations?

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As part of Sun’s Java SE 6 6u10 update release, we’re busy adding a number of new deployment features to Sun’s commercial implementation that are designed to improve the consumer download, install, and usage experience for the JRE. Part of this effort are new plug-in and Web Start implementations built from the ground up to replace the existing code, which is both complex, and hard to open source. Once the 6u10 release ships, we expect that the new features will be forward-ported to OpenJDK 7 and some capabilities, like the plug-in and Web Start implementations may also be open sourced for OpenJDK 6. The specific plan and roadmap for this work is still being decided.