Andy Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The easiest way would be if we could get write access to the repository, so > that we can provide code and bug fixes directly. (Of course, we intend to > give something back Classpath). Providing the code to a maintainer would be > okay for us, too.
We're rather free with the CVS access. > In our developer branch, we replaced our own Java API (expect from > java.lang and java.awt*) by GNU Classpath, to see whether there are > any unexpected problems. The result looks quite good: We didn't > encounter much problems and in Classpath, much more packages are > implemented. The only disadvantage is, that with GNU Classpath, > JamaicaVM needs more memory and seems to be somewhat slower. Since > JamaicaVM is designed for realtime systems, which are typically > rather small, embedded systems with weak CPUs, I would expect that > we can provide optimizations here. We haven't spent a great deal of time optimizing the library for speed or memory usage. By chance do you also have support for the JPDA? > Another thing that might be interesting for you is that JamaicaVM is > easily portable to a variously number of platforms. Currently, it is > available on Linux, Solaris, VxWorks, QNX, embOS and Euros. We are > working on a NetOS version and RTEMS is probably coming soon. Some > of those systems are somewhat different from ordinary Unices. For > the Classpath project, compatibility with those systems was > obviously not an issue. Since we need to do this anyway, we'd > volunteer to write a platform-independent layer for accessing the > operating system. (If you don't like this for some reason, no > problem. In that case, we would only use the Java code from a common > repository and continue with our own native code). A platfom independent layer, call it a library, to abstract away socket and file i/o and other needed system calls has been on my todo list for a while. I'd actually prefer to use NSPR or APR for this purpose but I think they do more than Classpath needs and they also complicate the licensing issue. > What do you think? Are we welcome? Yes, you're definitely welcome. I'll send you a separate email off the list to get the ball rolling. -- Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
