IcedTea

IcedTea for OpenJDK 8
Developer(s)GNU Classpath
Stable release
3.31.0[1] / April 20, 2024 (2024-04-20)
Repositorygithub.com/icedtea-git/icedtea/tree/3.0
Written inC, C++ and Java
Operating systemLinux, *BSD, macOS, Windows, Solaris
PlatformIA-32, x86-64, ARM, AArch64, sparc, sparc64, ppc, ppc64, ppc64le, s390, s390x
TypeJava virtual machine and Java Library
LicenseGNU GPL+linking exception
Websiteicedtea.classpath.org
IcedTea for OpenJDK 7
Developer(s)GNU Classpath (with Red Hat until 2.6.22)
Stable release
2.6.28[2] / November 8, 2021 (2021-11-08)
Repositorygithub.com/icedtea-git/icedtea/tree/2.6
Written inC, C++ and Java
Operating systemLinux, *BSD, macOS, Windows, Solaris
PlatformIA-32, x86-64, ARM, AArch64, sparc, sparc64, ppc, ppc64, ppc64le, s390, s390x
TypeJava virtual machine and Java Library
LicenseGNU GPL+linking exception
Websiteicedtea.classpath.org
IcedTea for OpenJDK 6
Developer(s)Red Hat & GNU Classpath
Final release
1.13.13 / January 9, 2017 (2017-01-09)
Repositoryicedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6
Written inC, C++ and Java
Operating systemLinux, *BSD, macOS, Windows, Solaris
PlatformIA-32, x86-64, ARM, sparc, sparc64, ppc, ppc64, s390, s390x
TypeJava virtual machine and Java Library
LicenseGPL+linking exception
Websiteicedtea.classpath.org
IcedTea-Web
Developer(s)Red Hat & GNU Classpath
Stable release
1.8.8 (binaries) / October 28, 2021 (2021-10-28)
Repositorygithub.com/AdoptOpenJDK/icedtea-web
Written inC++ and Java
Operating systemLinux, *BSD, OS X, Windows, Solaris
TypeJava Web Start support and Java web plugin for applets
LicenseGPL+linking exception
Websiteicedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web
IcedTea-Sound
Developer(s)Red Hat & GNU Classpath
Stable release
1.0.1 / July 18, 2014 (2014-07-18)
Repositoryicedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-sound/
Written inC and Java
Operating systemLinux, *BSD, OS X, Windows, Solaris
TypeSound support
LicenseGPL+linking exception
Websiteicedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Sound

IcedTea is a build and integration project for OpenJDK launched by Red Hat in June 2007.[3] IcedTea also includes some addon libraries: IcedTea-Web is a free software implementation of Java Web Start and the Java web browser applet plugin. IcedTea-Sound is a collection of plugins for the Java sound subsystem, including the PulseAudio provider which used to be included with IcedTea. The Free Software Foundation recommends that all Java programmers use IcedTea as their development environment.[4]

Historically, the initial goal of the IcedTea project was to make the OpenJDK software, which Sun Microsystems released as free software in 2007, usable without requiring any proprietary software, and hence make it possible to add OpenJDK to Fedora and other Linux distributions that insist on free software. This goal was met, and a version of IcedTea based on OpenJDK was packaged with Fedora 8 in November 2007. April 2008 saw the first release[5] of a new variant, IcedTea6, which is based on Sun's build drops of OpenJDK6, a fork of the OpenJDK with the goal of being compatible with the existing JDK6. This was released in Ubuntu and Fedora in May 2008. The IcedTea package in these distributions has been renamed to OpenJDK using the OpenJDK trademark notice. In June 2008, the Fedora build passed Sun's rigorous TCK testing[6] on x86 and x86-64. IcedTea 2, the first version based on OpenJDK 7, was released in October 2011.[7] IcedTea 3, the first version based on OpenJDK 8, was released in April 2016.[8] Support for IcedTea 1 was dropped in January 2017.[9]

  1. ^ "[SECURITY] IcedTea 3.31.0 for OpenJDK 8 Released!". mail.openjdk.java.net. April 20, 2024. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  2. ^ "[SECURITY] IcedTea 2.6.28 for OpenJDK 7 Released!". mail.openjdk.java.net. November 8, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  3. ^ Fitzsimmons, Thomas (2007-06-08). "Credits". Retrieved 2007-06-08.
  4. ^ "Free but Shackled – The Java Trap- GNU Project – Free Software Foundation".
  5. ^ Angel, Lillian (2008-04-04). "IcedTea6 1.1 Released". Archived from the original on 2008-10-31. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
  6. ^ Sharples, Rich (2008-06-19). "Java is finally Free and Open". Archived from the original on 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  7. ^ Hughes, Andrew John (2011-10-19). "IcedTea 2.0 Released!". Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  8. ^ Hughes, Andrew John (2016-04-10). "IcedTea 3.0 Released!". Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  9. ^ Hughes, Andrew John (2017-01-11). "Discontinuation of Support for IcedTea 1.x". Archived from the original on 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2017-01-12.