Guilhem made JMP work with kaffe. JMP is a profiler for java that can be used to trace objects usage and method timings. JMP uses the JVMPI interface to gather statistics and interact with the JVM. JMP uses a GTK+ interface to show the status. And it is released under the GPL! A few pictures […]
David Gilbert gave us some good news: And Andrew Haley quoted some wise words: When a very well-known and widely respected computer scientist recently used [lines of code as a measure of] programmer productivity in a lecture, the suggestion came from the audience that, instead of talking about “the lines of code produced” we should […]
Weeee! This is mainly a bug fix release for issues found with eclipse 3.1 and Free Swing applications just after our 0.16 release. But it also includes some exciting new features. XML DOM, XPATH and XSL fixes. Free Swing is much more responsive. JInternalFram, JTree, JMenu, JTable, JButton and JFileChooser fixes. FileChannel lock and force […]
Played a bit with the latest Cacao Tomclipse release. This runtime has matured nicely. It is way more stable then the old 0.91 release. As the screenshot page shows real world applications now just work and on a wide range of processors (Alpha, i386, MIPS (64-bit), PowerPC (32-bit) and x86_64). And it actually is really […]
Lillian checked in a JTree icons patch and says our JTree is now working “upto par”.
Europe rejects software patents! European Parliament says no to software patents, yes to innovation. Thank you Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. Thank you economic-majority.com. And thanks to all those individuals that called, phoned, faxed and demonstrated these last couple of years. Hopefully this shows that european democracy can work. Even if it takes a […]
STOP Software Patents in Europe! How you can help Join the web demo Join the economic-majority.com Join the demonstration in Strasbourg If you cannot attend the demonstation in Strasbourg in person please phone or fax your member of the European Parliament (MEP). Or better yet discuss the situation with others you work with and send […]
We released 0.16 (code name “Harmony”)! AWT GtkScrollBar and GtkImage improvements. All image operations are now working correctly. Graphics2D has been upgraded to use Cairo 0.5.x. Free Swing updates for 1.5 top-level compatibility. JTree interface completed. JFileChooser has been implemented. Completed implementations of BoxLayout, GrayFilter and SplitPane. Upgraded the Corba features to 1.3 and included […]
Essien Ita Essien on GNU GOATS on JAVA Business as we know it is changing fast, and innovations like this are the reason. Like I said earlier, these are exciting times. OSNews on Fedora, Java And GCJ Along with the large number of free and open source Java packages made available in Fedora Core 4 […]
Last week I tried to help Michael with the Debian native Eclipse package and this week I played a bit with the Fedora JOnAS package. It thought me to respect the work of the packagers a lot more. Gary explained how to get a package dependency graph. So I tried to make one for Eclipse […]