Author Archives: man-di

For a project at my work I needed to replace invocations of methods with my own code and still be able to call the original code in replacement. I couldn’t change the source directly as I wanted the code to … Continue reading →

Late I spoke with Rege Wagner in person about GNU classpath and other free software to run them on some PDA device like the iPaq. We both agreed that the glibj.zip from GNU classpath e.g. used by jamvm is way … Continue reading →

I decided to start a new project after I got some feedback on my last past. Having some automake integration in Eclipse seems to be really needed. The project is called antiauto and can be found here now. More feedback … Continue reading →

Currently automake based projects are not very well supported in Eclipse. On the other side ant based projects are really well supported in Eclipse. To close this gap until one writes a plugin that does it for real I wrote … Continue reading →

Mark Wielaard just sent me a mail telling me that the article is online now. Unfortunatly it is german only. I will write another update when I find an english version.

Yesterday I looked into the new edition of the monthly german Linux Magazine. I was very glad when I read the Brave GNU World column by Georg C. Greve, president of FSF Europe. It was mainly about Java and Free … Continue reading →

Today I released a new version of gcjwebplugin. This release now startes the appletviewer process when it is actually needed. This means when it has to show an applet inside the web browser. Some other minor fixes are done too. … Continue reading →

I had some free time while I did a bootstrap of new GCC including the BC branch merge. My Computer is not very fast. It needs over two hours for a full bootstrap. So I decided to hack a little … Continue reading →

Locale informations in GNU classpath are very buggy currently. They miss much informations, others are partly wong, some locales are completely missing. A good is the missing support for the Euro currency. ‘m currently working on this problem. Some localizations … Continue reading →

Yesterday I attended on an indoor cycling marathon event. Eight hours of cycling with a different instuctor every hour. It was an event to get money of the German Children Cancer Help organization. All starting charges were for them. This … Continue reading →