Just noticed the Mysaifu JVM project has an English blog. That will safe gary some time translating. There are several interesting notes about porting GNU Classpath to Windows CE and some interesting optimalization hints for improving the system classloader when using zip file class loading.
A little hacking and it seems we get some more Free Swing goodness
Lovely
JamVM 1.4.0
Robert never pushes JamVM very hard. But he really should! His latest JamVM 1.4.0 release adds impressive new features (Soft/Weak/Phantom References, optimized garbage collector, language and reflection type access checks, GNU Classpath 0.19 and CVS support plus improved/added support for PPC-32/64, AMD64 and kfreebsd) and feels really stable. Go Robert!
Seems Egon is another happy customer. He got JChemPaint working out of the box on Kubuntu. Still some stuff to fix, but an encouraging start. I hope his goal, a live chemblaics CD, will be a reality in the not too distant future. It will be hard work to get the last pieces together though.
Merging, merging, merging
Just before GCC 4.1 branched we merged all the latest GNU Classpath (0.19 + CVS) updates into libgcj. GCC now uses subversion and it was pretty OK. It made some things easier then CVS, but learning new tools is always hard. There were a large number of small gotchas that took quite some time. There is just one small patch outstanding to get the Corba support enabled and then Audrius cool swing/corba GNU Classpath example just works. And according to sloccount the result is impressive. We finally passed C++! For all of the gcc codebase we now have:
Totals grouped by language (dominant language first): ansic: 1183962 (45.42%) ada: 563241 (21.61%) java: 430946 (16.53%) cpp: 306801 (11.77%) asm: 32642 (1.25%) sh: 26039 (1.00%)
Next target Ada! :)
yes, I realize these are silly statistics, the addition of gcjx will actually move C++ up again since it is written in C++… Use the best language/tool for the job and all that.
Lots of interesting things in GCC land these days. There is a GCC 4.2 projects page. A proposal for Link-time optimzation (also as pdf paper Link-Time Optimization in GCC: Requirements and High-Level Design). And a proposal for LLVM/GCC Integration. Interesting times indeed.
GNU Classpath hacker room at FOSDEM 2006
Fosdem will be February 25 and 26 in Brussels. We will try to fill a hacker room. So if you have some cool ideas for demos, presentations or discussion topics please let us know.
Mysaifu JVM
Mysaifu JVM is a port of GNU Classpath plus runtime to the Pocket PC 2003. The author provides nice bug reports and also has a blog that I would love the be able to read. Unfortunately I cannot read any Japanese.
MKSearch is a metadata search engine that indexes structured metadata in Web documents. Released under the GPL and builds with GCJ out of the box. It comes with extensive documentation. And some nice screenshots. Since all this is free software it might be the start of what Tom called an aggregator for my web (note however that MKSearch currently only handles various forms of meta-data, not free text indexing yet).
James keeps comming up with cool new logos.
Sometimes a picture really says more than a thousand words:
We did it: GNU Classpath “95% and counting” 0.19 released.
James Damour created GNU Classpath Banners.
Please feel free to add them to your project pages if your project is know to work with GNU Classpath or just to promote the project.