Mark J. Wielaard

James keeps comming up with cool new logos.

Sometimes a picture really says more than a thousand words:

Cacao running a Eclipse 3.2M3 snapshot on Alpha. Sweet!

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.

David posted the new StatCVS scores:

We are still going strong! The Mauve test suite has seen a lot of new additions. And it takes a long time now to run through them all. Luckily Tom has setup an autotester that warns about regressions if it sees a new mauve failure when someone commits something that wasn’t properly tested against all of mauve.

Updated FreeSwingTestApps and finally tried out BeanShell. I am impressed! It is a great way to quickly test out some things. It builds out of the box with GNU Classpath. The swing gui needs some work, but you can actually try some Free Swing stuff now. And Robert made BshBot that you can see in action when you visit #classpath on irc.gnu.org (when Robert is online).

Eclipse 3.1 and OpenOffice 2.0 hit Debian unstable

Happy to see both eclipse 3.1 and OpenOffice 2.0 hit Debian main.

Fun with small devices

Found some interesting things people do with GNU Classpath these days:

• OSGi on the Slug (using GNU Classpath and JamVM)
• Compiling JamVM from source and running OSGi on it

Away from the internet for a week. So don’t expect me to reply to email quickly.

Tom wrote an article for Red Hat magazine Fedora and the J-word full of nice hints and tips on gcj. Havoc Pennington wrote up some observations about server programming in java. His conclusion: GNU Classpath will save us! Thanks Havoc. We try to do our best.

i2p – GCJ support is on the way

Nice liberation story from the i2p project:

In any case, this is quite kickass, as it means we’ll be able to both integrate more cleanly with other languages AND ship whereever GCJ ships (DFSG friendly!) Thanks go to the GCJ and GNU Classpath folks for their hard work!

Kickass indeed!

Andrew posted some nice results showing that we now pass more than 95% of the Jonas test suite with gcj. That prompted Christian and me to see how far we could get with JBoss on Cacao and JamVM with GNU Classpath. After some hacking 4.0.3 actually starts up:

Not very stable at the moment. But a nice start.

A couple of important new releases to complete the “GNU Classpath picture” this week:

• Casey Marshall released Jessie 1.0.1 a Secure Sockets Extension for programming network sockets with the Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
• Julian Scheid released gjdoc 0.7.6 the GNU documentation generation framework for java source files.

Casey also made a GNU Crypto 2.1.0 RC1 release, but warns that people shouldn’t use this release if they aren’t willing to upgrade again in a week or two (and especially, don’t package this release for a distribution).

On developer.classpath.org you can see the results of running gjdoc on GNU Classpath CVS to generate full class documentation.

It has been a long time since I read a book in one go cover to cover. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon was a really nice read.

And then I heard the sound like swordfighting and the roaring of a train coming into the station and I worked out that there was a big computer somewhere and it knew where all the trains were and it sent messages to the black boxes in the little stations to say when the trains were coming, and that made me feel better because everything had an order and a plan.