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[danstowell <danstowell+launch@xxxxxxxxx>]

a clue arrived via robmyers :

"@mclduk: Processing itself works fine under OpenJDK. But neither 1.1
nor the current 184 pre-release create applets that work under OpenJDK.
"

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Use OpenJDK rather than sun-java6-bin (for lucid+) - OK for Processing?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596325
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Status in broth - the mother of all soups: In Progress

Bug description:
We currently include sun-java6-bin (via a hook) rather than using an open java implementation. I know of one specific reason, which is that in the past SwingOSC (used mainly by SuperCollider) didn't work well on an open impl (cos of missing features in the impl, I think).

Things seem to have improved. SwingOSC has been reported to work fine on OpenJDK <http://www.listarc.bham.ac.uk/lists/sc-users/msg03924.html>. 

At the same time, Canonical has ditched sun-java6-bin (for lucid onwards) from its main repositories, saying OpenJDK is now good enough to meet most people's needs.

PROCESSING / ARDUINO USERS: is OpenJDK acceptable for running Processing? I'm not a heavy enough user to know if there are important gaps in the coverage. Processing is the other main thing in Puredyne which relies on Java.