Re: [Ginp-developers] Snapshot 31 is available

[David K. <dk...@mi...>]

Oops, sorry for replying directly to you; I meant to reply only to the list.

I've been playing with the Oracle JREs and the Tomcat 8 RCs (I'm too 
lazy to compile from trunk).  I'll let you know how I get along as I get 
time to play with it (not this week most likely).

Dave


On 11/25/2013 9:47 AM, Brian Burch wrote:
> On 25/11/13 13:22, David Kerber wrote:
>> Thank you!  I had tried unsuccessfully to port my installation of Ginp
>> to Tomcat 8 with Java 7, but haven't had time to dig into the problems I
>> was running into.
>>
> Hi David,
>
> I'm pleased to discover I am not alone! You forgot to reply to the
> mailing list, so I will do it now.
>
> FYI I am running the new snapshot under:
>
> java version "1.7.0_25"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.10) (7u25-2.3.10-1ubuntu0.12.04.2)
> OpenJDK Client VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode, sharing)
>
> and
>
> Apache Tomcat 7.0.42 (I haven't tried it with tomcat trunk yet).
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian
>
>> On 11/25/2013 7:14 AM, Brian Burch wrote:
>>> I still use ginp to generate thumbnails for my photo collection, but
>>> have not been able to upgrade to java 7, or even to openjdk, for the
>>> last couple of years.
>>>
>>> I eventually got annoyed enough to debug the problem properly. Ginp uses
>>> java.awt.image.AffineTransformOp to generate thumbnails. However, most
>>> implementations of this class use a proprietary sun class to do the
>>> work. This class is not shipped except except with the old sun java 6,
>>> leading to ClassNotFound or NoSuchMethod errors which might be trapped
>>> and reported as failures to generate the files.
>>>
>>> Snapshot 31 is now available in the trunk on the project repository, and
>>> also for download as war and source packages. This new release should
>>> run successfully with openjdk 6 and 7, and also with oracle jdk 7. It
>>> uses a slower but portable algorithm to generate thumbnails by default,
>>> but also retains the original algorithm.
>>>
>>> The underlying java bug has been reported several times, and has been
>>> accepted as regression because it used to work. Unfortunately,
>>> presumably because it does not compromise security, it has not been
>>> fixed in the 7u45 updates which are just becoming available. I have
>>> written some new unit tests, including one that will notify me when the
>>> java bug is eventually fixed.
>>>
>>> I don't know how many people are still using Ginp, but this fix should
>>> allow you to bring your java up to date and thus avoid the security
>>> exposures associated with running a very old sun jvm. I haven't tried to
>>> resolve any other bugs in Ginp.
>>>
>>> I hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
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