Mark J. Wielaard

Since people seem interested in this topic and since Rick of javalobby contacted me about it I wrote up a little summary of GNU Classpath APIs and documentation (it is the 5th entry).

Inspired by A Brief History of GNU Classpath created by Casey Marshall I looked at the actual lines of source code of GNU Classpath. Running SLOCCount on the releases of the last year gives:

Release
Date
SLOC

0.06
09 Sep 2003
185,803

0.07
05 Dec 2003
192,296

0.08
13 Mar 2004
200,471

0.09
02 May 2004
211,736

0.10
12 July 2004
225,049

CVS
17 Aug 2004
253,023

That means that in the last year GNU Classpath has [...]

Made a long post to the GNU Classpath mailinglist describing all the nice GUI work (AWT/Swing) going on recently. The best summary is probably the screenshots and slides from Thomas Fitzsimmons his GCJ and the Desktop talk at the Desktop Developers’ Conference and the new screenshots of the new AWT Demo and Swing Demo we [...]