[dev] FYI: You can easily use IBM JDK with OpenOffice.org

[Sander Vesik]

wow cool 8-) Supposedly adding IBM jdk support for other platforms would 
be of similar complexity ?

Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> FYI:  
> 
> Simply by renaming the IBM jdk directory to j2sdk1.4.1 and adding some symlink 
> trickery so that jre/lib/ppc, jre/lib/classic, and jre/lib/native_threads 
> appeared to exist and have the right contents inside the IBM JDK I was able 
> to get the OOo 1.1.1 installer to recognize the IBM JDK 1.4.1 with JIT 
> enabled as an official  JDK for OpenOffice.org
> 
> To make sure it all works, I was able to install and use the WYSIWYG Jex Java 
> math formula editor and happily able to run it successfully.
> 
> Please note that the jvmaccess module in my tree has been modified to look in 
> classic and native_threads since it was meant to work with the Blackdown JDK 
> 1.3.1 for PPC Linux, so under another processor your symlinks would point to 
> client and not native_threads under another platform like x86.
> 
> The real changes to support an IBM JDK in jvmaccess are nothing more that 
> changing paths so that the JDK can find the things it expects.
> 
> Grepping the output of java -version for IBM is enough to recognize and adjust 
> the links accordingly.
> 
> I will try to create a proper patch for jvmaccess to support IBM jdks.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> 
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