2006! Moving The ADSL, telephone and cable companies are not playing nice which means I have had no internet access in my new house last week and probably won’t have any next week. It took a couple of days to get used to. And I cannot say that I particularly like it. But I must […]
Raif Naffah created a nice Hacking GNU Classpath with Eclipse document (including lots of screenshots) explaining how to setup native Eclipse on Fedora Core 4 to directly hack on GNU Classpath and Mauve. Tom Tromey made it so that you can use Cacao as runtime for all your work from inside Eclipse. And Stephan Michels […]
We are pleased to announce gjdoc release 0.7.7. gjdoc is the GNU documentation generation framework for java source files. gjdoc is part of GNU Classpath Tools. This is mostly a bug-fix release. This makes gjdoc much more robust when dealing with invalid documentation tags or source code and it is now possible to generate the […]
The “official autobuilder and regression tester” builder.classpath.org is finally fully operational. The builder.classpath.org Xen infrastructure has been donated by Berkeley Signal Inc through Jim Pick who also helps with setup and maintenance of the system. We are currently using Tom Tromey’s build scripts for updating, compiling and running the following things: gcc-trunk build + libgcj […]
Ruby, C, GCJ, SWIG, Lucene… Ruby Central 2005 Codefest Grant recipients, number 4 is interesting: 4. Ruby Bindings to Lucene Search Engine (Brian McCallister) Provide Ruby bindings to the Lucene (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/) search engine via SWIG and GCJ. I couldn’t find how this was going. Or how it compares to the PyLucene implementation. But I found […]
With GNU Classpath 0.19 we also for the first time released a snapshot of the generics branch for people to play with. I have to admit that I have been concentrating mostly on the trunk and hadn’t been paying much attention to the generics branch. Much thanks to Tom Tromey for genericizing (is that a […]
David Gilbert does it again. Has JFreeChart Escaped the Java Trap? Yes!!!
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For a long time we have needed a clear way to explain what we have been doing, how we do it and what our goals and road map are. When I was in Brazil a few months back David Wheeler discussed our progress, development model and goals with Bruno, Dalibor and me. As an outsider […]
Battle of the runtimes! Seems that after the release of JamVM 1.4.0 a lot of projects thought it was time to do an updated release (most based on GNU Classpath 0.19): SableVM 1.13-pre1 IKVM.NET 0.22 (includes generics branch) Cacao 0.93 And slashdot claims GCC 4.1 Released (grin, they are about 2 months early…) But I […]