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Bug 324782

Summary:	[Workbench] Move up to ICU4J 4.4.x with J2SE-1.5
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Paul Webster <pwebster>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Paul Webster <pwebster>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	Paul Webster <pwebster>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, bokowski, daniel_megert, dj.houghton, john.arthorne, kim.moir, markus.kell.r, Mike_Wilson, remy.suen, tjwatson
Version:	3.7	Flags:	john.arthorne: pmc_approved+
Target Milestone:	3.7 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=284486
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	335846, 338012
Bug Blocks:

Description Paul Webster

2010-09-08 14:26:12 EDT

In 3.7 we'd like to consume ICU4J 4.6 (and possibly 4.8) with a BREE of J2SE-1.5.

3.6 shipped with a customized version of ICU4J 4.2.1 (com.ibm.icu) provided by the ICU4J team, with a BREE of Foundation-1.0/J2SE-1.4.  With ICU4J 4.4 they've opened up their API to include java 1.5 features and allowed the use of 1.5 libraries in their internals, and they will no longer be able to generate java 1.4 compliant bundles.

Moving com.ibm.icu up to J2SE-1.5 will make it easier to consume any of the later versions of ICU4J.  4.4.x includes Unicode 5.2, and Unicode 6.0 is targetted for 4.8.



Possible bugs also investigated for ICU4J 4.8:

Bug 284486 -  Fragmentize com.ibm.icu

The possibility exists to ship com.ibm.icu with code but use the JDK data (1.5 Meg).

Bug 309477 -  com.ibm.icu.base should be more generally applicable (providing Bidi, UCharacter, ULocale, UTF16)

Bug 309468 -  [implementation] jdt.ui should be able to run without the full com.ibm.icu (fall back to com.ibm.icu.base / plain JRE support)

PW

Comment 1 Paul Webster

2010-09-08 14:31:49 EDT

I've run a test build with 3.7 from HEAD and com.ibm.icu_4.5.1.v20100830.jar with a BREE of 1.5.

The SDK and tests compile, and the following tests ran without errors:
org.eclipse.jdt.text.tests_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.jface.text.tests_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.text.tests_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.ui.editors.tests_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.ui.tests.forms_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.ui.tests_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.ui.tests.navigator_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.ui.tests.rcp_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.ui.tests.views.properties.tabbed_linux.gtk.x86.html
org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor.tests_linux.gtk.x86.html

PW

Comment 2 Markus Keller

2010-09-13 11:18:57 EDT

Will com.ibm.icu.base stay on CDC-1.0/Foundation-1.0,J2SE-1.3?

Comment 3 Paul Webster

2010-09-15 09:54:49 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> Will com.ibm.icu.base stay on CDC-1.0/Foundation-1.0,J2SE-1.3?

I've sent off a question, I'll respond back here.

PW

Comment 4 John Arthorne

2010-09-15 12:05:30 EDT

This was discussed at the September 15th PMC call, and approved.

Comment 5 Paul Webster

2011-01-17 08:19:45 EST

(In reply to comment #2)
> Will com.ibm.icu.base stay on CDC-1.0/Foundation-1.0,J2SE-1.3?

It looks like com.ibm.icu.base will also move to J2SE 1.5
PW

Comment 6 Paul Webster

2011-02-23 08:52:02 EST

Because I can never find it, here's the CQ: https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4795

PW

Comment 7 DJ Houghton

2011-02-23 14:01:18 EST

ICU (and base) v4.4.2.v20110208 has been approved (CQ: https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4802) and released into Orbit (bug 338009).

Comment 8 Paul Webster

2011-03-03 08:13:08 EST

In I20110301-1537

PW

Comment 9 Paul Webster

2011-03-08 13:02:10 EST

In I20110307-2110
PW