Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Native Eclipse – The Fast and the Furious ClasspathShowcase

Robert Schuster made a show case page on the new developer.classpath.org wiki called ClasspathShowCase in which he shows some simple steps to convince people how much progress we have made in the last couple of years. Try it out today and get convinced. Everything he shows will be included in the upcoming releases of Fedora […]

Fosdem presentations and vacation!

Presentations Fosdem 2005 All presentations are now linked from http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/events/escape_fosdem05.html Vacation! I will be offline for a week! Yeah!

More pictures – Fosdem 2005 meeting

Photos of the GNU Classpath Fosdem 2005 meeting.

Impressive CVS stats for GNU Classpath and Mauve

David Gilbert of JFreeChart fame posted two pictures to the GNU Classpath mailinglist that say more than a thousand words: <img src="http://www.object-refinery.com/classpath/mauve/statcvs-20050228/loc_small.png"

PR and technology progress

LugRadio Sven de Marothy made it on LugRadio. He describes his experiences on the GNU Classpath mailinglist. It is interesting to see how these things work. I was mainly surprized about how the interviewers wanted it to be some fight between mono and GNU Classpath. While in reality mono is of course just one of […]

New Fedora Core 4 packages

Take a look at the list of new Fedora Core packages since FC3. Notice anything interesting? No wonder they are going to slip the release date a bit to make sure they have a stable gcc 4.

GNU Classpath @ Fosdem 2005

Make sure you attend! Lots of cool talks about kaffe, gcj(x), GNU Classpath, IKVM.net, Apache, java-gnome, and a guest appearance by the CACAO developers. And lots of fun preparing the goals and priorities for the next year. Please add yourself the the participation list if you will come. And please suggest some discussion topics for […]

Thomas needs a blog

Thomas Fitszimmons needs a blog. So he can post cool screenshots of his work on gcj and libjawt like this one: Go Tom! Go!

New gui branch building

Hint if you use the jhbuild setup from Thomas Fitzsimmons to build the new gcj gui branch. Make sure you add the following lines to your ~/.jhbuildrc file: # We need the latest snapshot branch branches[’cairo’] = ‘SNAPSHOT_0_3_0′ # And the latest gui branch for gcj branches[’gcj’] = ‘java-gui-20050128-branch’ And yes, this allows you to […]

Through the Looking Glass

Robert Schuster makes OpenGL and SDL coolness work with GNU Classpath and JamVM. And Jim Huang makes a X Protocol implementation with alpha blending and translucency work with Kaffe. Sweet screenshots!