Chris Burdess worked like a dog and made some very fine releases of GNU JAF (javax.activation), GNU JavaMail (javax.mail, plus extra NNTP, mbox, and Maildir providers) and GNU inetlib (finger, gopher and ftp URL stream handlers, plus utility classes for nntp, imap, pop3 and smtp client support). These packages can use GNU Crypto and Jessie […]
We need to get Thomas a blog so he can announce these things himself. First he posted the following to the GNU Classpath mailing list: Lately, I haven’t been working directly on gcjwebplugin and gcjappletviewer themselves, but rather using them to test applets, and fix the AWT bugs that they expose. Here’s a screenshot I […]
Advogato has been down for the last week. So I setup WordPress to be able to blog again. Here is some old news from the start of my little Canada “tour” last week. Blame Canada! Arrived in Canada. Still unsure which day it is or how late. But I should have enough time to get […]
Kaffe, can you say AWT? robilad is a human merging machine :) He actually integrated the work of jserv and saugart which means that Kaffe OpenVM now has three AWT backends (QT, X and GTK+). This should also make Kaffe useable for hacking on GNU Classpath‘s AWT and Swing implementations. And just to add to […]
GNU Classpath, JamVM and Eclipse When Robert released the latest JamVM 1.1.4 his release notes just said: JNI enhancements introduced in Java 1.2 implemented. Updated to use GNU Classpath 0.09. […Some build infrastructure improvements…] Minor bug-fixes and speed optimisations. Eclipse now starts up. Note that last little point. Eclipse is a huge complex application (suite) […]
Lucene, gcj and python Deep in a thread about using gcj as a portable way to write programs on different architectures someone mentioned PyLucene, a python integration of Lucene (a full-featured text search engine library written in java), using gcj and SWIG. Which is a really nice showcase for what is possible with GNU gcj. […]
GTK+ AWT peers now on Kaffe Thanks to the hard work of saugart and jserv (and of course the GNU gcj hackers who worked so hard on the actual AWT peers) Kaffe can now also use the GNU Classpath GTK+ AWT peer implementation (see the announcement, including sweet screenshots). This is really nice since it […]
GNU Classpath We did it! GNU Classpath 0.09 was released. Just 7 weeks after 0.08 but the amount of improvements is huge. And not only nice new packages and features (javax.print, javax.imageio, service provider support), but also lots of “boring” cleanup work (like making sure all C code is -ansi -pedantic clean, API documentation is […]
Code cleanup, regression testing and benchmarks This week was mostly doing boring cleanup work. Tried to get the GNU Classpath native C code base -ansi -pedantic clean and turned on -Wall. Hopefully we can even add -Werror soon. Made sure that everything works well with gcc-2.95, gcc296 (yuck) and gcc 3.x, with and without -O2. […]
Growing pains It seems that we get more and more people wanting to help out with GNU Classpath. Which is very, very nice. But that also means explaining our hacking customs again and again. So, I finally went through the email archive of the last couple of months and added sections on needed tools and […]