legal issues re compiling other java libs?

Wed Feb 15 14:18:00 GMT 2006

Heitzso writes:
 > 
 > >But I'm mystified why a speech synthesizer needs graphics anyway...
 > freetts, the speech synthesizer, is looking for javax.sound.sampled.* 
 > classes
 > which are found in IBM's graphics.jar file. (Hey, I didn't name IBM's 
 > jar ...)
 > 
 > and axis is looking for sun.awt.image.codec.JPEGImageEncoderImpl
 > which is found in same graphics.jar file. Axis also needs old jimi
 > code from a Sun jar.
I'm using axis-1.2.1-1jpp_1fc, and it doesn't seem to need any unfree
classes.
 $ rpm --requires -qf /usr/share/java/axis/axis-1.2.1.jar 
jaf 
jakarta-commons-discovery 
jakarta-commons-httpclient 
jakarta-commons-logging 
java 
javamail 
jpackage-utils >= 0:1.5
log4j 
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
wsdl4j 
 > My SOAP call is extremely simple so I can get away with hand building
 > the xml etc. and dropping AXIS entirely.
 > 
 > Is there an open source replacment for javax.sound.sampled.* classes?
They seem to be in libgcj-4.1.0.
Andrew.