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JFileChooser and other Free Swing progress

Roman checked in Kim Ho’s implementation of JFileChooser. And our Free Swing implementation is actually looking better and better each day. Quick screenshot of the new JFileChooser and jedit (main window, file system browser and search/replace dialog) in action (jamvm 1.3.0 + GNU Classpath CVS + cairo 0.3.0): Sweet. (But no, jedit isn’t actually usable […]

GNU Classpatchy

Found on the harmony mailinglist: > we recommend they start to contribute by submitting Classpath patches (which we could kindly call “Classpatches” :-) Well, since Apache was “a patchy server” this would not be quite out of league :)

On the horizon

The Auto-vectorization with gcj looks exciting. If this can be made to work for java source files (and it looks like it is almost there already) then we will see some very nice speedups. Auto-vectorization in GCC has some examples in C and Fortran that GCC supports now. There is also the GCC Autovectorization Enhancements […]

Some nice press and some time off

Finally some nice press about our OpenOffice/GCJ community work. GCJ is now also mentioned on the OpenOffice.org homepage. Please help out if you can. Taking a little time off-line. I’ll be back answering email after the weekend.

OpenOffice.org 2.0 and GCJ 4

Just got a thank you email from Richard Stallman about our progress with OpenOffice 2.0 and GCJ 4 for both communities. The FSF has also updated the text at http://www.fsf.org/news/open-office-java.html to better reflect our current status: Volunteers needed to build, test and package free OpenOffice 2.0 The FSF is looking for volunteers to build, test […]

10 May 2005

How to take the fun out of someones achievement Uraeus post made me sad. It was an hectic week, but is seems our Harmony effort is already a success. planet.classpath.org saw a record number of visitors, the irc channel has been full of interested people and after some discussions back and forth it seems that […]

How to help Harmony?

Posted some thoughts on how GNU Classpath hackers can help Harmony. Sven then did a little dance! These guys are cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet.

Harmony?

Yes, that announcement wasn’t really well coordinated. But I tried to make my views clear on the mailinglist. Please read and enjoy. I just don’t have much time this weekend, but I do hope this will work out great. Update: Posted about Harmony! to the GNU Classpath mailinglist. With links to: The State of World […]

It keeps bloating at an alarming rate

The latest numbers from David Gilbert about GNU Classpath and Mauve progress are in (yes, I am behind on email): Also forgot to mention that GNU Classpath 0.15 was released last week. Optimized nio and nio.charset plus io streams integration leading to large speedups in character stream performance. To complement this new framework a native […]

OpenOffice.org 2 Writer wizards working under gcj

Happy news for those following the OpenOffice.org 2.0 melodrama. Caolan made the new document Writer wizards working under gcj. He also has a list of bugs, patches and feature requests needed for better support.