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Look and feels updates

I have just checked into to the Subversion trunk a few updates regarding the IzPack 3rd-party Swing look and feels support.

1. Liquid and JGoodies Looks have been updated to their latest versions.
2. Support has been added for the Toned-down Substance look and feel themes. The restriction to this themes family is due to the fact that the other families are either too dark ... or way too saturated^[1]

To use this new look and feel, here an extract of what you can put in your installer specification:

 <guiprefs height="600" resizable="yes" width="800">      <laf name="substance" >          <os family="unix"/>          <param name="variant" value="moderate"/>     </laf>     (...)  </guiprefs>

In this case, Substance will be used on Unix-like systems with the moderate theme.

You can already test those changes by checking out the current development version!

New release: IzPack 3.10.2

I am pleased to announce the release of the IzPack 3.10.2 Java installer generator. This is maintenance release which brings fixes.

Here is the full changelog:

• Vista/Java6 fixes (Stefan Wachter via Julien Ponge)
• Dutch Langpack fixes (Hans Aikema)
• Fix NPE for pack.id == null in dependencies/excludes (Hans Aikema)
• Indonesian Langpack fixes (Thomas Santosa via Hans Aikema)
• UserInputPanel and InstallerFrame: enable the next button for search dialogs (Michael Hagedorn via Julien Ponge)
• VariableSubstitutor: new Java source files support (Max Fedorov via Julien Ponge)
• French langpack updates (Loic, via Julien Ponge)
• Documentation update (Scott Plante via Julien Ponge)
• AutomatedUninstaller.writeUninstallData() out of sync with InstallerFrame fixed (Marius Nicolae via Marc Eppelmann)

It can be downloaded from:

• http://izpack.org/
• https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/izpack/izpack-src/tags/3.10.2 (subversion tag).

Many thanks to the contributors and developers who have made this release possible!

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OpenJDK is go!

The Sun JDK is now completely available under the GPL from http://openjdk.java.net/, at the exception of a few modules (font rendering and audio I think) which are distributed as blobs.

This is now the end of endless stupid flamewars against Java being unpure and not free... or even evil

I am myself very happy by this complete release of the code base. I confess I was even a hard Sun-basher when they were still against the Java opensource move. My main complain was mainly the one of portability across more than the Sun-blessed platforms. I remember myself compiling the JDK on FreeBSD, having to register to download the source code from Sun under the SCCL license, then have a huge patch being applied and come back the next morning for the JDK to be installed There are also many people out there running other hardware/os combinations than Windows, Linux/Intel-AMD or Mac OS X, so this move will make it even more true to say that Java actually is a universal runtime platform.

Many thanks to Sun for this move ... and thanks also to them for their overall HUGE contribution to the opensource ecosystem (think OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris, ZFS, ...).