[oe] State of Java on OE

[Richard Leitner]

On 04/24/2017 09:02 AM, Stefano Babic wrote:
> On 22/04/2017 00:25, Steven Osborn wrote:
>> Is anyone using Java on OE devices right now?
>>
>> meta-java - no release branches.  Seems to only be focused on master.
>> I've had trouble even finding a revision that will compile on Morty.
>>
>> meta-oracle-java has a Morty branch, but the URI for the binaries is
>> bad so it fails to install.
>>
>> Overall it seems like Java is not a very favored or platform at the moment.
>>
> 
> I have got the same problems - the missing of release branches in
> meta-java is quite confusing. -master does not work with last releases,
> and everybody have to find working commit id for each release. And after
> that, cherry-picking something from -master to fix global issue (it was
> for me dependency's issue with classpath).

fyi: I'm currently working on fixing openjdk-7 to work again with
current master. I think I'll be able to post the patches today, or at
least this week.

regards,
RichardL