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 […]
Feeling sick I hate being sick. Soar throat and a headache. Cannot concentrate. And there are so many exciting things going on. So what I do is I look at the pretty pictures from Grzegorz Prokopski showing Free Swing on SableVM and from Jim Huang showing JSDL on Kaffe. And read about the most amazing […]
GNU Classpath Been very happy with the latest release. Many additions (java.util.regexp/gnu.regexp, java.net.URI, javax.swing.undo, java.awt.geom.CubicCurve2D/QuadCurve2D cubic and quadratic equation solving, javax.print.attribute.standard), i/o speed improvements (BufferedReader and ObjectInputStream). Lots of java.awt and gtk+ peer improvements. Start of embedded window support (browsers). Some Swing work. And the normal list of enhancements and bug fixes. Also wrote a […]
Do we need to make a choice? hp wrote an article on Java, Mono, or C++? which he hopes will be the start of a discussion about high-level language technologies and how they can influence the development of the creation of applications for the free desktops. I am happy because he seems to know what […]
Free JOnAS and Cajo! RMI expert needed Andrew Haley started a discussion on what was needed to free JOnAS. And I looked in what was missing/broken in GNU Classpath to free Cajo. Looks like we have most things already, but we will need some RMI fixes and extensions. So if you are a RMI expert, […]
Free AWT and Free Swing Seems Free Swing was just the start. Graydon Hoare, Olga Rodimina, Kim Ho, Andrew Overholt, David Jee, Thomas Fitzsimmons and Fernando Nasser decided they could do much more and much faster. So they created a branch for libgcj to really concentrate on hacking Free AWT and Swing stuff. They already […]
FOSDEM FOSDEM here we come! The organization has provider a killer schedule! And we have added some nice presentations for our developer room. If you are a GNU Classpath, kaffe, gcj, sablevm, ikvm, jaos, wonka, java-gnome, or free java packager and like to see a strong support for free software written in the java programming […]
robilad is my hero for the day. When someone complained that the Mauve tests are probably wrong (or not useful) because they point out bugs in the proprietary core library implementation from Sun he described our feelings and hope about creating a truely free platform as follows: That depends on the situation. If the behaviour […]
Gnome meets java, java meets GNU gcj, gcj meets Eclipse I love it when a plan comes together.
Vacation and GNU Classpath developer workshop Vacation in Germany. Lots of walking and ending in Saarbruecken at the Linux Kongress where we will have a real GNU Classpath Developer Workshop organized by Sascha Brawer. Thanks to the Linux Kongress people for providing the facilities and making attendence to our BoF free (as in beer). But […]