| 1 | This document contains a brief list of the most important OS/2-specific changes
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| 2 | in the OpenJDK product from release to release.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | CHANGES
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| 8 | 1.6.0 Build 19 RC (2011-02-21)
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| 9 |
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| 10 | - Ported and enabled the JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture) component
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| 11 | which provides a framework for debugging Java applications.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | - Added sound (audio and MIDI) support to Java applications using DART.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | - Added a free implementation of the com.sun.image.codec.jpeg package (taken
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| 16 | from the IcedTea project) used by some old Java applications like Jeti/2.
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| 18 | - Renamed all Java DLLs by adding a 'j' prefix to the names to avoid possible
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| 19 | conflicts with system DLLs.
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| 21 | - Fixed: Accessing the network from Java applications would crash on some
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| 22 | machines (Odin bug).
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| 23 |
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| 24 | - Fixed: Spontaneous 100% CPU load in many Java applications (e.g. GenealogyJ
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| 25 | Jeti/2) when throwing NullPointerException as a result of accessing null
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| 26 | objects of some application classes (Odin bug).
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| 27 |
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| 28 | - Fixed: java.util.prefs.Preferences: Use the Open32 registry on OS/2 instead
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| 29 | of throwing an exception.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | - Fixed: JVM used PATH instead of LIBPATH to comprise java.library.path
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| 32 | resulting in inability to find JNI DLLs in some applications.
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| 34 | - Fixed: Crash in java.io.WinNTFileSystem.getSpace() (Odin bug).
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| 35 |
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| 36 | - Fixed: Exception java.awt.image.ImagingOpException in many applications due
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| 37 | to wrong exports from in jmlibimg.dll.
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| 40 | 1.6.0 Build 19 Beta 2 (2011-01-12)
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| 42 | - Added a predefined font configuration file to use the Liberation font family
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| 43 | as Java system fonts (see README.OS2 for details).
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| 44 |
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| 45 | - Added the jawt.lib library to the SDK package.
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| 46 |
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| 47 | - Added some missing GUI and audio classes to rt.jar.
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| 48 |
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| 49 | - Fixed: Java could not find a .jar file in the current directory when
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| 50 | starting it with 'java -jar filename.jar'.
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| 52 | - Fixed: Non-ASCII characters in the title bar of any Java window would be
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| 53 | drawn using wrong glyphs.
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| 54 |
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| 55 | - Fixed: Java could incorrectly detect the default object heap size on some
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| 56 | systems for some specific VIRTUALADDRESS values and abort at startup with a
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| 57 | "Could not reserve enough space for object heap" error message.
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| 58 |
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| 59 | - Fixed: java.io.File.mkdirs() wouild always fail which would in particular
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| 60 | abort the installation process of some applications such as jEdit, iTrain
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| 61 | (this bug was actually fixed in Odin).
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| 62 |
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| 63 | - Fixed: An attempt to use Drag & Drop in any Java application would cause
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| 64 | a Java exception and program termination.
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| 67 | 1.6.0 Build 19 Beta (2010-12-30)
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| 68 |
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| 69 | - Added support for AWT and Swing classes which brings GUI capabilities.
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| 70 |
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| 71 | - Lots of small fixes.
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| 74 | 1.6.0 Build 19 Alpha (2010-10-01)
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| 75 |
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| 76 | - First public release.
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