Another article about GCJ and CNI (Programmer’s Toolchest) in the July number of Dr. Dobb’s Journal by Gene Sally. It compares CNI with traditional JNI: CNI contains well thought out constructs for method invocation, property access, exception handling, and synchronization. Using these constructs instead of their JNI procedural equivalents means you can get the same […]
LinuxJournal published the article ”Eclipse Goes Native” by John Healy, Andrew Haley and Tom Tromey: Red Hat’s Eclipse Engineering team has freed the popular integrated development environment from its ties to a proprietary Java Virtual Machine. To compile Eclipse natively, Red Hat’s Eclipse Engineering team used GCJ, a free, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for Java. GCJ […]
Jim Huang did it! (with thanks to the gcj and gtk+ hackers)
Chris Burdess worked like a dog and made some very fine releases of GNU JAF (javax.activation), GNU JavaMail (javax.mail, plus extra NNTP, mbox, and Maildir providers) and GNU inetlib (finger, gopher and ftp URL stream handlers, plus utility classes for nntp, imap, pop3 and smtp client support). These packages can use GNU Crypto and Jessie […]
We need to get Thomas a blog so he can announce these things himself. First he posted the following to the GNU Classpath mailing list: Lately, I haven’t been working directly on gcjwebplugin and gcjappletviewer themselves, but rather using them to test applets, and fix the AWT bugs that they expose. Here’s a screenshot I […]
Advogato has been down for the last week. So I setup WordPress to be able to blog again. Here is some old news from the start of my little Canada “tour” last week. Blame Canada! Arrived in Canada. Still unsure which day it is or how late. But I should have enough time to get […]