[relnotes] [Fedora Project Wiki] Update of "Docs/Beats/Java" by MurrayMcAllister

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revising my previous revisions...

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   * Sun has licensed the OpenJDK trademark for use in Fedora.
   * Shipping both OpenJDK 6 and IcedTea would have been confusing, and would have added size to the distribution.
  
- IcedTea continues to provide autotools support ({{{autoconf}}}, {{{automake}}}, {{{libtool}}}, and so on), a portable interpreter for PowerPC and 64-bit PowerPC architectures, plugin support, Web Start support, and patches to integrate OpenJDK into Fedora.  The IcedTea sources are included in the `java-1.6.0-openjdk` SRPM.
+ IcedTea continues to provide autotools support ({{{autoconf}}}, {{{automake}}}, {{{libtool}}}, and so on), a portable interpreter for PowerPC and 64-bit PowerPC architectures, plugin support, Java Web Start support, and patches to integrate OpenJDK into Fedora.  The IcedTea sources are included in the `java-1.6.0-openjdk` SRPM.
  
  OpenJDK 6 is not Java compatible; work is underway to certify it Java compatible.
  
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  Upstream OpenJDK does not provide a plugin.  The Fedora OpenJDK packages include an adaptation of `gcjwebplugin`, that runs untrusted applets safely in a Web browser.  The plugin is packaged as `java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin`.
  
   * The `gcjwebplugin` adaptation has no support for the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304021 bytecode-to-JavaScript bridge (LiveConnect)].  Applets that rely on this bridge will not work.  Experimental LiveConnect support exists in the IcedTea repository, but is not ready for deployment in Fedora.
-  * The `gcjwebplugin` adaptation has no support for [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304031 signed applets].  Signed applets will run in untrusted mode.  Experimental support for signed applets is present in the IcedTea repository, but it is not ready for deployment in Fedora.
+  * The `gcjwebplugin` adaptation does not support [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304031 signed applets].  Signed applets will run in untrusted mode.  Experimental support for signed applets is present in the IcedTea repository, but it is not ready for deployment in Fedora.
   * The `gcjwebplugin` security policy may be too restrictive. To enable restricted applets, run the {{{firefox -g}}} command in a terminal window to see what is being restricted, and then grant the restricted permission in the `/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/security/java.policy` file.
  
  === Handling Java Web Start Applications ===
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  === Fedora and JPackage ===
  
- Fedora includes many packages derived from the [http://jpackage.org JPackage Project].  Some of these packages are modified in Fedora to remove proprietary software dependencies, and to make use of GCJ's ahead-of-time compilation feature.  Use the Fedora repositories to update these packages, or use the JPackage repository for packages not provided by Fedora.  Refer to the [http://jpackage.org JPackage website] for more information on the project, and the software it provides.
+ Fedora includes many packages derived from the [http://jpackage.org JPackage Project].  Some of these packages are modified in Fedora to remove proprietary software dependencies, and to make use of GCJ's ahead-of-time compilation feature.  Use the Fedora repositories to update these packages, or use the JPackage repository for packages not provided by Fedora.  Refer to the [http://jpackage.org JPackage website] for more information about the project, and the software it provides.
  
  [[Admonition("warning", "Mixing Packages from Fedora and JPackage", "Research package compatibility before you install software from both the Fedora and JPackage repositories on the same system.  Incompatible packages may cause complex issues.")]]