Andrew Overholt recently pointed me to a blog entry on Java module systems. I can’t comment in detail on the JSRs or how they should interact because they’re all behind click-through licenses. My instinct tells me the ideal answers are: “Sun, drop JSR 277 and adopt OSGi; IBM, develop OSGi within the Java tree, on …
Author Archives: Thomas Fitzsimmons
FOSDEM 2007
Tom Marble is a wizard at getting the right people in a room together. In the Distro DevJam we had Java packagers from Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, OpenSUSE, SUSE, Mandriva, Gentoo and FreeBSD, together with all the right people from Sun. This was the perfect group for discussing packaging issues surrounding OpenJDK (and a …
The New Free Java Project
Surprise I was happily surprised on Monday when Sun announced that they would release Java ME, SE and EE under the GPL. Actually, “happily surprised” is an understatement: Sun also adopted the GNU Classpath linking exception! I couldn’t have hoped for a better result. Watching the announcement webcast was a surreal experience. It was as …
Thoughts on Fedora Core 6
gcjwebplugin My main goal for Fedora Core 6 was the inclusion of gcjwebplugin, so I’m very pleased that it will in fact be included. Though it is not enabled by default, having it in the base distribution means that interested people can experiment with it and file bug reports, with the minimum of configuration. We’ve …
Fedora Core 5
Installation and Setup I installed Fedora Core 5 on my IBM ThinkPad T41 last night. I’ll go through a few minor annoyances before the good news: – NetworkManager wasn’t the default and I couldn’t find a way to enable it through the GUI (not that I should have to explicitly enable it anyway). I ended …
Fedora Core 5 Wishlist
Here’s my categorized list of goals for Fedora Core 5. java-gcj-compat GNU Crypto fix for Eclipse extssh support Casey Marshall has already committed a Diffie-Hellman JCE provider to GNU Classpath so this is just a matter of testing. import all JAWT fixes All the necessary patches are already in GNU Classpath and libgcj. Jessie merged …
AWT Progress
gcjappletviewer and gcjwebplugin More and more applets are working with gcjappletviewer and gcjwebplugin. Here’s a screenshot of gcjappletviewer HEAD + GNU Classpath HEAD: and one of gcjwebplugin HEAD + GNU Classpath HEAD: I’m getting through my AWT bug list. My next big chunk of work will be completing the transition to GTK 2.8 and Cairo, …
Corel Office for GNU Classpath
Nostalgia: Caps Lock seems to be stuck on but Corel Office for Java basically works on GNU Classpath!
libjawt.so, java-gcjHEAD-compat, Big Merge
Here’s a screenshot of a JOGL demo running on Sun and libgcj: As you can see, it’s hard to tell which is which! Big Merge The screenshot represents several efforts coming together. First, the demo is running on natively-compiled GNU Classpath HEAD. Tom Tromey recently finished the Big Merge, making Classpath a sub-directory of gcc/libjava. …
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GtkImage peer rewrite
Sven de Marothy completely rewrote the image-handling sections of the GTK peers. This was one of the most convoluted areas in the peers and one of the buggiest. Now it is very clear and well-organized. Check out this screenshot: The top is JDK 1.4, centre is Classpath 0.14 and bottom is Classpath HEAD with Sven’s …