This release adds some serious jazz: Full merge of 1.5 generics work. Bootstrappable with OpenJDK javac compiler. URLConnection timeout support. TimeZone can use platform zoneinfo file when available. The Collection classes, lang.management and util.spi have been updated to 1.6. Addition of 1.6 ServiceLoader. Speedup for cairo and freetype Graphics2D support. The ASM library is now […]
Dalibor is always much more eloquent than I am. He made the core observation that explains my (and I know from discussions on irc a lot of other people) double feeling about the “open letter” that Geir send to Sun in a recent thread on the GNU Classpath mailinglist. In principle I am for an […]
GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative Ensure that Software Freedom is a reality beyond the desktop, and available in the hands of users around the world. Technologies Under Consideration Java ME Nice and interesting to see where this is going.
Caolan McNamara – Backtraces and prelink Rob Bradford – OProfileUI Profiling made pretty
GNU Classpath wasn’t directly participating in Summer of Code. But since we are in the integration business between various projects and communities it still resulted in some interesting projects for us that I am excited to see happen. There is the proposal from Mario Torre for Gnome/GStreamer Desktop sound integration for Java for the GNU […]
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released – happily upgrading some boxes now. Jeremy Allison talks about Working for The Man Proprietary environments are a trap What will get very interesting in the future is the effect a fully open Java platform will have on the software environment in the next ten years. After initially ignoring Java due […]
Andrew Haley posted a nice sneak preview: Go! Go! Go! Team
Fedora 7 Test 3 got released and includes the new gcj with 1.5 support. Really nice to see all this goodness work out of the box now.
Dalibor pointed out a nice story about GNU Classpath and JamVM being used to run Tomcat on the N800, and it all just works. Very impressive.
Phil Muldoon setup Planet Frysk. Cool!