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.
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:
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 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.