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List:       batik-dev
Subject:    Re: Patch Request for Batik Rasterizer
From:       Simon Pepping <spepping () leverkruid ! eu>
Date:       2010-11-16 9:08:33
Message-ID: 20101116090833.GB2507 () leverkruid ! eu
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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 06:31:27PM +0000, Helder Magalhães wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
> 
> 
> > Developers:
> >
> > I am currently working on an application that is utilizing Batik Rasterizer
> > for exporting our graphic data.  I have noticed that a module used for JPEG
> > exporting (specifically JPEGImageWriter in package
> > org.apache.batik.ext.awt.image.codec.jpeg) uses Sun’s proprietary packages
> > com.sun.*.
> 
> Right, David Wimsey has already pointed out to the specific bug your
> are suffering. ;-)
> 
> 
> > In most cases, this seems fine.  However, in a recent revision of OpenJDK
> > shipped on Ubuntu systems, they have updated some interfaces to now be
> > classes.  Since Sun has the disclaimer that they are allowed to change code
> > located in these packages without warning, we are at the mercy of what they
> > choose to do.
> 
> Please take a look at the issue. There are pointers there towards
> using not only OpenJDK but also GNU ClassPath, IcedTea (which AFAIK is
> the previous name of OpenJDK), etc.
> 
> 
> > I would like to submit a patch, rewriting the module to use java.* and
> > javax.* instead of com.sun*, assuming the process hasn’t already been
> > started by someone else.

The same problem was dealt with in xmlgraphics-commons, see r1028385,
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&sortby=file&revision=1028385.
The idea is that batik eventually will depend on xmlgraphics-commons,
but that will take a while (and a release).

Simon

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