Coming to the Fosdem libre java event this year? Then you will need this little brochure of all the fun things going on: And don’t forget to check out the full Fosdem schedule. Lots of fun stuff to see and do!
Tom Marble started as OpenJDK Ambassador. Go Tom! Really looking forward to meet him at Fosdem.
Christian Thalinger (aka twisti) just announced 10 years of CACAO and some very nice birthday presents: From: Christian Thalinger <twisti <at> complang.tuwien.ac.at> Subject: 10 years CACAO Date: 2007-02-19 11:23:49 GMT The CACAO virtual machine celebrates its 10th anniversary. On February 14th 1997 CACAO 0.1 using the class library of the JDK 1.0.2 for the Alpha […]
Last year at LinuxTag I gave a presentation on GNU Classpath and what I thought was the next big challenge, packaging all those liberated programs written in java. One could say that we have succeeded in providing working code for a far range of existing Free Software projects written in the java programming language. The […]
Started using Fedora for my development desktop system and CentOS on my server system. Pretty nice combination. That also gave me the opportunity to install WordPress 2.1. Interesting new features, like the visual editor and spell checking. Lets see how this post looks. Enabled comments and Bad Behavior. Hope it helps combat comment spam. At […]
Now that I am actually paying attention to all the Micro Edition stuff I notice that there actually are a lot of them already (based on GNU Classpath). Today I stumbled upon Jelatine JVM: Jelatine is a new Java Virtual Machine which targets the Java 2 Micro Edition Connected Limited Device Configuration (J2ME CLDC). The […]
Funky stuff. Ruva: A simple stack-based virtual machine implementation written entirely in Ruby which uses GNU Classpath as core library implementation.
As always GNU Classpath and Friends will come to Fosdem (Brussels, Belgium, 24/25 February) to discuss “the state of the world”. Obviously one big event going on in 2007 will be the OpenJDK project and figuring out how to work together. Normally we call this meeting “Escape the Java Trap”, but with Sun’s recent announcement […]
MIDPath provides a MIDP2 implementation on top of the SDL and SDLJava libraries. It targets free JVMs working with GNU Classpath: Cacao, Kaffe, JamVM. The code is based on phoneME, the free implementation of MIDP2 from Sun. MIDPath is released under the GPL. Now you can play all those cool java phone games on your […]
Last week GNU Classpath 0.93 “Dreamland” was finally released. As always this is the best release ever! The screenshots look really nice. And you should really go through the very extensive release notes which discuss everything. Highlights of new features in this release, pointers to supported applications and screenshots, the status and future of the […]