javaws always use icedtea

[samuelbernardo]

I'm using oracle jdk as default jvm, but when I review java-config result after setting oracle-jdk-bin as prefered jvm, javaws continues to start icedtea version.

Analysing the script /usr/libexec/eselect-java/run-java-tool.bash I realised that itweb-javaws is hardcoded:

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if [ "${tool}" = "javaws" ] && [ -x "/usr/bin/itweb-javaws" ]; then
        exec "/usr/bin/itweb-javaws" "${@}"
fi

Shouldn't this also change when java-config defines new predefined jvm?

Thanks for any clarification about this implementation in the mentioned script.
The ebuild that installs the script is app-eselect/eselect-java and I would like to change this script to also set javaws when predefining jvm.

[samuelbernardo]

Special thanks to chewi gentoo dev for the clarification:

Disable the webstart flag against icedtea(-bin) and unmerge
dev-java/icedtea-web. Job done. This used to be configurable through
eselect but it was really overcomplicated for no benefit. This is all
documented here and shown when you install icedtea-web the first time.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.g ... .gentoo-r1

[samuelbernardo]

Special thanks to chewi gentoo dev for the clarification:

Disable the webstart flag against icedtea(-bin) and unmerge
dev-java/icedtea-web. Job done. This used to be configurable through
eselect but it was really overcomplicated for no benefit. This is all
documented here and shown when you install icedtea-web the first time.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.g ... .gentoo-r1

For icedtea-3.6.0 disable use flag -webstart instead of -bin

[Chewi]

I didn't mean a flag called "bin", I was referring to the binary package called icedtea-bin. The webstart flag has always had that name.