Free Java DevRoom: IcedTea-Web goes offline and beyond ; tallk proposal

[Jiri Vanek]

Here goes the slides too:

https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/fosdem/itwGoesOffline-4014/itwGoesOfflineAndBeyond.pdf

Thank you for great time all participants and organizers!

J.

On 12/03/2014 06:32 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> Title: IcedTea-Web goes offline and beyond
>
> Abstract:
>   Future of java applets and javaws is dark. Chrome have already cut down NPAPI. Most of the banks
> moved from java to javascript for they internet banking. The javaws will suffer a lot by introducing
> jigsaw modules. What is remaining? The "physical applets" of course! Seriously - the "killing"
> feature of applets is that they do not work offline. But similarly to javaws - they can! IcedTea-Web
> is now removing this boundaries, and what more, it will also allow you to detach applet out from
> browser - by jnlp shortcut, or by lunching html page by javaws directly.
>   Apart of this, ITW is now  JDK independent and you can run those features on any OpenJDK, even on
> Oracle or IBM JDKs.
>   And except serving you web application comfortably online, ITW allows you to lock this application
> - even "signed ones"  in sandbox.
>   And of course there is Jogamp project - the awt-less  plugin - How I wish to see it merged
> upstream!-)
> *** Long story short, more security and much much more freedom ***
>
>
>   A/V recording: Ashamed, but Ok
>   ET: 30 min + demos.
>
> Speaker: Jiri Vanek
>    Most of the time cooking coffee for rest of Red Hat's OpenJDK team. Except this, maintaining
> OpenJDK for Fedora, developing ITW and trying to contribute to any open source stumbled over.
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