Re: ImageJ: OpenJdk has problems with JPEGImageEncoder

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 07:56 -0700, David Herron wrote:
> 
> com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGImageEncoder - This is a private class,
> not a public class, and we've always maintained freedom to
> drop/change/modify private classes at any time.  This was dropped.
> This issue is upstream in the openjdk project.
> 
> On the OpenJDK 2d-dev mailing list (no URL unfortunately) this package
> was discussed in August and Chris Campbell said this:-
>         The history (and fate) of those classes is documented here: 
>         http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6527962 

There is an attempt to recreate the package in IcedTea through an
imageio wrapper. It is not yet finished though.
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192

Cheers,

Mark