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This page outlines the status of high-level feature areas to bring from Apple's Java SE 6 to the macosx-portMac 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 libraries -fobjc-gc to be ObjC-GC compatible
  • build .jdk bundle (for CommandLine and embedded use only)
  • build embeddable .jre bundle
    • 
  HotSpot
  • •  build JavaAppLauncher stub
• 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
• Cocoa AWT
  • 2D drawing (OpenGL based)
    • OpenGL layer needs to be vended from an NSOpenGLLayer (10.6+)
  • Cocoa key/text events
    • cleanup to use JRSEvent API
  • threading cleanup
  • merge JDK6 CWindow -> LWCWindow changes and style flags
  • update CImage
  • Transparent window support
  • Headless
  • remove $AWT_TOOLKIT=CToolkit, switch to default
  • ObjC-GC threading cleanup
• Aqua LaF
  • Requires an image tile cache
  • 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
• Accessibility
• Clipboard
• System properties fixup (vendor name, etc)
  • Resolve "Darwin" vs. "Mac OS X" checks
• JNI interface for JavaVM.framework
• 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 DTrace v2-style probes

Features not yet ported from Apple's Java SE 6

• Printing
• Proxy Server handling
  • get config from System Configuration framework
• Shared Archive Generation
• Bundled app launching
  may require additions to JavaRuntimeSupport.framework
  • Locale support
    • Requires a single locale setter CFBundle SPI call
  • Drag & Drop (requires some CoreDrag methods)
  • SWT/3D embedding with JAWT
    • might require CALayer cross-process linking internals

  Features requiring rewrite

  • Sound

  Features needing evaluation for distribution mechanism

  • Crypto/Keychain/Smartcard
  • •  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  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
    • 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
    • Detailed status

  Non-Features

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  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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