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diff --git a/jvmfwk/README.md b/jvmfwk/README.md index 7cb338e14f32..b21540851683 100644 --- a/jvmfwk/README.md +++ b/jvmfwk/README.md @@ -1,15 +1,20 @@ +# JVM Framework Wrappers + Wrappers so you can use all the Java Runtime Environments with their slightly incompatible APIs with more ease. Used to use an over-engineered "plugin" mechanism although there was only one "plugin", called "sunmajor", that handles all possible JREs. -IMPORTANT: The <updated> element in vmfwk/distributions/OpenOfficeorg/javavendors_*.xml files +IMPORTANT: The `<updated>` element in `vmfwk/distributions/OpenOfficeorg/javavendors_*.xml` files should only be updated for incompatible changes, not for compatible ones. As stated in the commit -message of <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/69730/> "javavendors_*.xml <updated> should not have -been updated...": "Changing <updated> causes jfw_startVM and jfw_getSelectedJRE (both -jvmfwk/source/framework.cxx) to fail with JFW_E_INVALID_SETTINGS, which in turn causes functionality +message of <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/69730/> in LibreOffice gerrit: + +"**javavendors\_\*.xml \<updated\> should not have been updated...** + +Changing `<updated>` causes `jfw_startVM` and `jfw_getSelectedJRE` (both +`jvmfwk/source/framework.cxx`) to fail with `JFW_E_INVALID_SETTINGS`, which in turn causes functionality that requires a JVM to issue a GUI error dialog stating that the user must select a new JRE in the Options dialog. While that behavior makes sense if a JRE was selected that would no longer be -supported by the modified javavendors_*.xml, it is just annoying if an already selected JRE is still -supported. And a compatible change to javavendors_*.xml implies that an already selected JRE will +supported by the modified `javavendors_*.xml`, it is just annoying if an already selected JRE is still +supported. And a compatible change to `javavendors_*.xml` implies that an already selected JRE will still be supported." |