GCJ/Perl Integration Anthony pointed me to the facination GCJ/Perl Integration project by David Rusek. This is one of the google Summer of Code projects. See also: The original proposal Some Preliminary results So now you can write mixed C++ and GCJ code in Perl: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use GCJ::Cni; use BasicJavaClass; GCJ::Cni::JvCreateJavaVM(undef); […]
Sven has been working on a new set of AWT peers for GNU Classpath based on Qt4. They look nice and have already helped find issues in our generic AWT code and our other gtk+ peer code.
GNU Classpath distro DevJam Various Debian packagers and developers are interested in coming together to improve the Free Software tool chain, the programs and the free runtime environments for software written in the java programming language. For such a meeting we would like to include packagers from various distributions to coordinate on library names, dependency […]
Finally did some coding again: That is some text copy/pasted from xchat, an image from gimp, a Serialized object from another program and a file list from eclipse. It is nice to have all these programs interoperate so nicely with our awt.datatransfer.
Interesting project on sourceforge. jRate an extension of the GCJ compiler front-end and runtime system which adds support for most of the features required by the RTSJ real-time specification.
Towards a standard of Freedom Facinating article by Benjamin Mako Hill. It makes cristal clear why I have been feeling a bit uneasy about the Creative Commons. It is clearly a very good things to have. But something was missing. In Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement Mako explains […]
Events and presentations Collected the recent events and presentations. It gives a good overview of how the ecosystem around GNU Classpath is evolving. If you go to Oscon make sure to say hi to Tom. Anthony said he would give a small presentation at the San Francisco LinuxWorld show. Upcoming Events: [1-5 Aug 2005] OSCON, […]
How does ‘that company’ treat free software? Nice article by RMS on how to ‘judge’ a company. I guess he gets asked that a lot. So what can we say about Sun? Can we add up these three very different comportments and get an overall measure of how a whole company treats the Free World? […]
Huge rise in GCJ usage on Fedora Core John M. Gabriele posted a very nice overview of fedora core gcj package to the Fedora Core gcj mailinglist. It has a huge list of packages that are available out of the box now and explains the relationship between those packages and jpackage.org. The discussion on the […]