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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
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macosx-port src repository
Build 
build using clang build libraries -fobjc-gc to be ObjC-GC compatible- build .jdk bundle (for CommandLine and embedded use only)
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build embeddable .jre bundle
- HotSpot
- Load .jnilib (in addition to .dylib)
- 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)
Investigate JDK7-specific additions to NIO - kqueue based Selector
- WatchService implementation
- 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
- Lightweight Cocoa AWT
- Install AppKit App delegate, handle AWT lifecycle, autoshutdown eAWT/eIO Needs refresh from Apple trunk
- -XstartOnFirstThread
2D drawing (OpenGL based) - Cocoa key/text events
- cleanup to use JRSEvent API
threading cleanup - merge JDK6 CWindow -> LWCWindow changes and style flags
- update CImage
- Complete AWT peers (ScrollPane, TextArea, Checkbox, etc)
- Transparent window support
- Headless
- remove $AWT_TOOLKIT=CToolkit, switch to default
- ObjC-GC threading cleanup
Aqua LaF - Requires an image tile cache
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- Screen Menu Bar
- Needs cleanup to use JRSMenu API
- Needs refresh from Apple trunk
- Requires an image tile cache
Fonts/Text drawing - Needs cleanup to use JRSFont API
Robot System properties fixup (vendor name, etc) - Resolve "Darwin" vs. "Mac OS X" checks
JNI interface for JavaVM.framework...
- 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
- Clipboard
- Printing
- Proxy Server handling
- get config from System Configuration framework
- DTrace v2-style probes
- Shared Archive Generation
- Bundled app launching
- Port private JUnit harness tests to jtreg
may require additions to JavaRuntimeSupport.framework
- Locale support
- Requires a single locale setter CFBundle SPI call
- Accessibility (requires 1 method)
- Drag & Drop (requires some CoreDrag methods)
- SWT/3D embedding with JAWT** might require CALayer cross-process linking internals
Requires rewrite
Need Evaluation for distribution mechanism
- Crypto/Keychain/Smartcard
Not Scoped ("deploy" is not part of public JDK7)
- 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 Applets/Plugin2
- Need to create .plugin bundle
- Need to embed slimmed JRE into .plugin bundle
- Need 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 Need to determine update mechanism (Sparkle.framework?)
- JavaFx support
- Web Start
- Need to determine delivery vehicle (inside Applet plug-in, or some other form) .jnlp file ownership hand-off with Apple's "– Java Web Start.app " helper?
- Java Preferences
Soft tasks
- 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
- Mac OS X conceptual deviations from Java platform assumptions AppKit Threading & Cocoa Memory Management best practices examples
- Internal "Adopt-an-app" testing workflows
- Port private JUnit harness tests to jtreg
Non-
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Features
These issues features will not be ported to OpenJDK from the Apple Java SE 6 port
- Making MacRoman encoding the defaultdefault 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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