Mark J. Wielaard

David Gilbert added another Demo to GNU Classpath Examples:

Nice work! Free Swing is slowly getting better and better.

LWN article on Oldenburg DevJam

lwn.net published my article about the GNU Classpath distro DevJam – Europe.Subscribe to LWN to read it now, or wait till next week when it is available for non-subscribers.

… but apparently not where the action really was.
Returning home I was greeted by an INBOX containing:

Reworked JComponent and JViewport painting for much faster and flicker free swing by Roman.
An imageio BMP-reader plugin by Sven.
The start of java.util.Formatter by Tom.
Completion of BoxLayout by Roman.
Diffie Hellman key algorithms by Casey.
A real DomainCombiner implementation by Santiago and [...]

No, we didn’t just drink beer. Wolfgang Bär and I (with some remote help from Lillian) got Jump Unified Mapping Platform starting up:

This will be a really nice application to get working completely, lots of stuff to fix :)

Advogato bloggers are back

Hurray!. Thanks to quad all the Planet Classpath advogator blogs have been reinstated.

Sorry for those with advogato diaries. I have temporarily removed them from Planet Classpath till I figure out where advogato went.

This place is crazy! 40 people in one big room. Everybody behind laptops. Sleeping-bags everywhere.
Prelimenary schedule below (It will probably change completely, first reaction was that there must be more package hacking).
If you didn’t make it to Oldenburg, please join the Virtual DevJam (on irc.gnu.org in #classpath) 17:00 CET (15:00 UTC) on Friday.
Friday
Morning, setup, introductions, [...]

Get ready for Oldenburg

Branden Robinson, the Debian Project Leader, has a nice writeup of the various meetings taking place in Oldenburg this week, including the GNU Classpath distro DevJam.

Having mature software is only half the battle, however; that software has to be coherently put together and easy for the user and developer to manipulate. For [...]

Yesterday I wrote:

Hint: Adding more cool demos to GNU Classpath Examples will earn you instant fame (and lots of screenshot exposure). Plus it helps people starting out with Free Swing or other parts of the GNU Classpath library to see what and how things are possible (non-gui demos are also really appreciated).

And today David Gilbert [...]

Seeing the nice screenshot that Roman Kennke posted I wanted to post my own:

That is the Free Swing Demo from GNU Classpath Examples. Thanks to the hard work of David, Lillian, Roman and Tony Free Swing is really coming alive!
Hint: Adding more cool demos to GNU Classpath Examples will earn you instant fame (and lots [...]

Really looking forward to the GNU Classpath distro DevJam meeting in Oldenburg in two weeks. If you haven’t done so yet, please add yourself and/or anything you want to see discussed/hacked on during these days to the wiki page (or fill in the forms attached to this email) If you cannot make it this time [...]

More platforms, more harmony

Riccardo Mottola (grey_gandalf) setup a blog where he posts about kaffe on sparc, ppc, darwin, solaris, etc (anything but x86 it seems) and David Tanzer has a blog where he posts about the activities of the harmony-dev mailinglist participants. Both have been added to Planet Classpath (scroll down for their latest postings).

Two more months of development so time for a new release. As always this release has broken all records yet again. 29 people actively contributed to this release and made 535 CVS commits during the two months of development (or almost 10 commits each and every day!). diffstat since 0.17: 994 files changed, 114744 insertions(+), [...]

That was quick! Andreas got the GNU Classpath awt peers and the new GNU JAWT examples working on Darwin.

A big thanks to the classpath/gcj/libgcj team (alphabetical order) for the hard and amazing work!!

Finally got our GNU JAWT working. What went wrong all this time was the fact that gcc 4.0.x comes with a jawt.h that defines some structs slightly different from the one that now comes with GNU Classpath. Oops.

I added a little animation. blink! blink!

We are in preparation mode for the next GNU Classpath developer release snapshot. That is always a good time to throw around some arbitrary numbers. David Gilbert updated his statcvs graphs showing an increase in line count of around 10% since our last release only two months ago:

I did a quick Mauve status scan:
0.17: [...]