Updated FreeSwingTestApps and finally tried out BeanShell. I am impressed! It is a great way to quickly test out some things. It builds out of the box with GNU Classpath. The swing gui needs some work, but you can actually try some Free Swing stuff now. And Robert made BshBot that you can see in […]
Away from the internet for a week. So don’t expect me to reply to email quickly. Tom wrote an article for Red Hat magazine Fedora and the J-word full of nice hints and tips on gcj. Havoc Pennington wrote up some observations about server programming in java. His conclusion: GNU Classpath will save us! Thanks […]
Andrew posted some nice results showing that we now pass more than 95% of the Jonas test suite with gcj. That prompted Christian and me to see how far we could get with JBoss on Cacao and JamVM with GNU Classpath. After some hacking 4.0.3 actually starts up: Not very stable at the moment. But […]
A couple of important new releases to complete the “GNU Classpath picture” this week: Casey Marshall released Jessie 1.0.1 a Secure Sockets Extension for programming network sockets with the Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Julian Scheid released gjdoc 0.7.6 the GNU documentation generation framework for java source files. Casey also made a GNU Crypto 2.1.0 RC1 […]
It has been a long time since I read a book in one go cover to cover. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon was a really nice read. And then I heard the sound like swordfighting and the roaring of a train coming into the station and I worked […]
Robert setup FreeSwingTestApps to have a collection of Free Software applications that we could use to test out our Free Swing implementation. I tested a couple with GNU Classpath CVS embedded in GCC/GCJ CVS and we are definitely making some nice progress: As you can see Weka has some buttons not drawn precisely where they […]
Norman Hendrich has supplied us with a stream of very high quality bug reports. Today he filed a “bug” to celebrate the hard work of Lillian, Roman, Tom F.,Tony and all other Free Swing and AWT hackers. It will be a pleasure to close this bug :) Update: Norman said some nice things on the […]
David showed that the JUnit swing frontend worked. And it pointed out some serialization issues with jcommon. So they got quickly fixed in GNU Classpath and now we have: This looks like a useful tool to get more bugs fixed. Everybody loves seeing green bars! :)
David Gilbert added another Demo to GNU Classpath Examples: Nice work! Free Swing is slowly getting better and better.
… 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. […]