Mark J. Wielaard

Michael Hind published his slides from the Free Alternative Runtimes Summit. The Jikes RVM Story (and some well-known myths about dynamic optimization). It was a really good presentation, so go read the slides and learn!

Bryce Mckinlay published his presentation on free testsuites, the presentation on free desktop libraries (AWT & Swing) by Tom Fitzsimmons and Graydon Hoare and the presentation on GNU gcj by Tom Tromey. Hint – don’t use that template with white text on a dark background. If the beamer isn’t that good or the screen is […]

Published the GNU Classpath presentation and the Free Software Community, GPL, Compromising, Trust and Control workshop slides that we used in Boston.

Been playing with the CVS version of GCC (which will become GCC 4.0 – note to self, update the libgcj portion with all the GNU Classpath updates that have gone in) and the result is stunning! Tom Tromey had shown how to create a pre-compiled version of Eclipse 3.0. It is really easy now to […]

Back from the summit in Boston. Will post an overview soon. For now take a look at the picture plus writeup of Richard Li (one of the ACS/RedHat CMS people).

Apparently everybody but me had seen the discussion on GCJ, Native Java Compilation and Eclipse by David Orme. It is an interesting read. And it is good to see others are also dreaming of the same kind of future we are working on. The only piece missing in this story seems to be java-gnome which […]

Build and Run!

Always wanted to know how those people writing on Planet Classpath and those hard working GNU Classpath hackers looked liked? Please let me know if you want another picture in there or if that picture isn’t you, but some random other person with the same name on the internet.

Happy to see so much positive feedback to Mark Howard’s post about the java-gnome status. One reply was really interesting since it came with a presentation ”From thin clients to web apps and back again”. The part on Development Technology explains the platform (GNU/Linux – liveCDs), programming language (java), widget-set (java-gnome), and development platform/runtime (gcj), […]

Advogato When advogato was down a couple of months ago I moved my diary to my own site. Which also hosts Planet Classpath. I should probably try to cross post my dairy on advogato since it is a nice community. gcj Saw that rbultje had some trouble with GNU gcj. It is always painful to […]