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This page outlines the status of high-level feature areas to bring from Apple's Java SE 6 to the Mac OS X port of JDK 7u4.

7u4 is now complete; 7u6 is in active development in jdk7u-dev.

A list of popular open issues is available at the JIRA bug reporter.

Features in the macosx-port src repository

• Build
  • build using clang
  • build .jdk bundle (for CommandLine and embedded use only)
  • build embeddable .jre bundle
    •  build JavaAppLauncher stub
• HotSpot
  • remove ALWAYS_PASS_TEST_GAMMA hack
  • register new threads as ObjC-GC capable
  • DTrace v2-style probes
• Core Libraries
  •  Load .jnilib (in addition to .dylib) - fixed for 7u4!

• • Precomposed/Decomposed File path translation
  • NIO
    • kqueue based Selectors
    •  WatchService implementation (kqueue-based)
    •  WatchService implementation (polling-based)
    • Async I/O API
  • Proxy Server handling
  • Locale support
  • System properties fixup (vendor name, etc)
    • Resolve "Darwin" vs. "Mac OS X" checks
• JNI interface
• Networking
• X11
• Universal binaries
• JObjC
  • get tests passing
  • self-generate BridgeSupport full files
• Cocoa AWT
  • 

Done

• HotSpot
• Core Libraries
• Networking
• X11
• Universal binaries
• builds as .jdk bundle

Partially done - on private branch

• Aqua LaF
  • Needs refresh from Apple TOT
  • Requires an image tile cache
• Fonts/Text drawing
  • Done, just needs to be ported onto trunk
• AToolkit
  • Cocoa mouse events
• 
  • 2D drawing (OpenGL based)
    
    • OpenGL layer needs to be vended from an NSOpenGLLayer (10.6+)
  • Robot
  • eAWT/eIO
    • Needs refresh from Apple TOT
  • -XstartOnFirstThread

  Partially Done - on private branch, requires additions to JavaRuntimeSupport.framework

  • Cocoa key/text events
    • Requires several InputMethod internal bits
  • Screen Menu Bar
    • Currently using Carbon menu handlers in 64-bit

  Not Done - but straightforward port

  • Clipboard
  • Printing
  • Proxy Server handling - get config from System Configuration framework
  • System properties fixup (vendor name, etc)
  • DTrace
  • Shared Archive Generation
  • JNI interface for JavaVM.framework
  • Bundled app launching
  • JObjC

  Not Done - requires additions to JavaRuntimeSupport.framework, but easy

  • Locale support
    • Requires a single locale setter CFBundle SPI call
  • Accessibility
    • Requires 1 method
  • Drag & Drop
    • Requires some CoreDrag methods
  • SWT/3D embedding
    • probably requires CALayer cross-process linking internals

  Not Done - requires partial rewrite

  • Sound
    • Apple implementation depends on HeadSpace
    • Possible alternate implementation for MIDI offered by 3rd party <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/sound-dev/2010-October/000110.html>

  Not Scoped ("deploy" is not part of public JDK7)

  • Applets/Plugin2
  • Web Start
  • Java Preferences

  Need Evaluation for distribution mechanism

  • • Cocoa key/text events
      • cleanup to use JRSEvent API
    • merge JDK6 CWindow -> LWCWindow changes and style flags
    • update CImage
    • Transparent window support
    • Headless
    • remove $AWT_TOOLKIT=CToolkit, switch to default
    • threading cleanup
  • Aqua LaF
    • Requires an image tile cache
    • Screen Menu Bar
      • Needs cleanup to use JRSMenu API
    • Needs refresh from Apple trunk
  • Fonts/Text drawing
    • Needs cleanup to use JRSFont API
  • Accessibility
  • Clipboard
  • Drag & Drop
  • InputMethod support
  • AppleScript javax.script engine
  • Sound
  • Printing
  • Keychain Provider
  • JAWT (for SWT/3D embedding)
  • Smartcard
  • Fix Kerberos code to read config info from SCDynamicStore (needed on Lion) | http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-566]
  • AWT Desktop API
  • System Tray

  Features not yet ported from Apple's Java SE 6

  • Bundled app launching
    •  JavaApplicationStub replacement
      •  Stub source now checked in. More tools for bundling an app are coming.
      •  Stub and AWT reviewed for sandboxing
        •  need to fix JavaSound, launcher stub, and remove dependency on X11 libfreetype.

  Features not in public macosx-port ("deploy" is private to Oracle). You'll have to trust us on these – deploy is not ready to be open-sourced.

  • Applets/Plugin2
    • Need to create .plugin bundle
      • Need to embed slimmed JRE into .plugin bundle
    •  Need NPAPI/Cocoa event -> Java event conversion
    • Need the LWAWT to render into NSOpenGLLayer (see above)
      • Need cross-process CALayer connection mechanism to be exposed
    •  Need to determine update mechanism (Sparkle.framework?)
    •  JavaFx support
  • Web Start
    • Need to determine delivery vehicle (inside Applet plug-in, or some other form) – Java Web Start.app will find javaws in the deployment bundle and execute that. Requires at least 10.7.3.
    •  Shortcut support
  •  Java Preferences 
    •  UI cleanup: Look better on Mac OS X
    •   Preference pane

  Non-feature tasks

  • Merge BSDPort into mainline jdk so that Mac OS X Port can be inserted into mainline:
    • Merge BSDPort hotspot, patch and description at: BSDPort, Description of jdk7 changes
  • Move internal bugs to http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT
  • Write up development wiki pages for
    • Quickstart
    • Status
    • Compiler changes/issues
    • Cocoa & Java crash course
    • Threading manifesto
    • Memory management manifesto
    • AppKit Threading & Cocoa Memory Management best practices examples
    • Internal "Adopt-an-app" testing workflows
  • Port private JUnit harness tests to jtreg
    • Detailed status

  Non-Features

  These features will not be ported to OpenJDK from the Apple Java SE 6 port

  • MacRoman default encoding
    • UTF-8 only, for all locales/languages
  • NSView-based AWT heavyweight widgets
    • LWAWT Swing-based widgets only
  • NSView-based JAWT embedding
    • CALayer embedding instead
  • CocoaComponent
    • Use CALayer-based JAWT embedding instead
  • SWT Carbon EventLoop support
    • No 32-bit only technologies, Cocoa only
  • JNI instantiation through the JavaVM.framework
    • Embed your own JRE instead
  • Apple JavaApplicationStub
    • Use the new JavaAppLauncher, loads an embedded .jre, JavaApplicationStub compatible
  • Apple native crypto
    • Use standard Java crypto
  • HotSpot Shared Archive Generation
    • Automatic JSA creation is of limited use until HotSpot supports class sharing in 64-bit, and in all garbage collectors

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