Hi all, My GNU Classpath TODO list is growing. And during the last weeks of this year my time for playing and hacking on GNU Classpath will be minimal. So I am asking for some help on issues that I cannot handle right now and that might have to wait till next year otherwise. They are mainly giving input to other groups about our current status and/or compatibility with their projects. Just sending a nicely worded email to the appropriate mailinglist will probably do the trick to get the discussion started (and we might learn a lot about what is required from GNU Classpath for other projects).
- java-gnome bindings. I have already posted it on this list twice so I won't repeat how important I think it is to have our stuff work nicely with it! - freedesktop.org has a Desktop Technology Road Map at http://freedesktop.org/~jg/roadmap.html The current entry for "Java" now says: Java is available from Sun for Linux, and there are several static Java compilers (e.g. GCJ, part of the GCC compiler suite and Jikes from IBM), and may be preinstalled. The Blackdown project provides community source distributions of Sun's Java for additional platforms that Sun may not. Java release 1.4.2 introduces Swing support based on GTK2 look and feel, which aids in the natural integration of GUI applications built with Java on the open source desktop. As this deploys widely over 2004, Java applications using Sun's VM will share the look and feel of Gnome desktops. Since they do have a big entry on 'Microsoft Interoperability' it would be nice if we could give suggestions for 'Java Interoperability and/or Compatibility'. Two very important things to mention would be at least the above mentioned java-gnome bindings and of course our gtk+ peers and the recent 2D work. See the whole document for technologies that are interesting to them and us. I think we have (or should have) hooks for almost anything they thing is important (especially when you add related projects like libxmlj, tritonous, etc.). Comments can be send to <https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xdg-list>. But can of course also be discussed on this mailinglist first. - A similar initiative is "UserLinux" which has a white paper at http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html from Bruce Perens. Their knowledge about GNU Classpath and friends is also a bit out of tune with reality. It currently says: "Java-like environment: It sounds as if GCJ/Classpath is in the lead among free Java-like implementations, but is not up to Java 2.0 and even misses the Java 1.3 standard. There is an implementation of Swing, and Eclipse can now be built . Some of the service providers will need to provide a Sun-derived JDK as an option." Discussion about a better description for that document for the our different free platforms can be done at: http://lists.userlinux.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss (Or again first on this mailinglist.) The fact that kaffe can now run JBoss must be mentioned! http://www.kaffe.org/~robilad/jboss-3.2.2-screenshot.png Note that I think that both of the above initiatives are a bit to eager to get popular really quickly. They seem to not mind that much if "kind of proprietary technology" slips through. Probably the idea is that they can fix that up later. Personally I think that is a big mistake. (That is also the reason I always focus on Free Software explicitly.) Both the above items depend a bit (but can also help us with clearly formulating) the next entry: - GNU Classpath 1.0 Roadmap Our current "Roadmap" says: GNU Classpath 1.0 will be fully compatible with the 1.1 and largely compliant with the 1.2 API specification and will have a stable API for interacting with virtual machines. This is a bit minimal. It should say something about the minimal coverage, the state of the documentation and the testsuite. I have idea about it, but nothing concrete yet. Hopefully giving input to the above to items on the overview/white papers will help us focus a bit more. Discussion of our goals for what we would consider 1.0 is very welcome. This is also an important point we can discuss/present at Fosdem. - java.util.regex/gnu.regexp Two copyright holders are missing in action :{ I am currently discussing how to proceed on this with Wes Biggs. If you have experience (or want to get experience with) regular expressions please let me know. - Savannah GNU Classpath code checking We need to check if someone has tempered with any code when they had access to the CVS server. Doing checks against kaffe and libgcj sources should help with this. See also http://savannah.gnu.org/statement.html - GNU Classpath task list. Sascha has already made a start with one and Patrik has already turned them into a nice web page (but since savannah is down, we cannot publish it...) If Patrik can post the current tasks to the mailinglist then other can comment on it and/or add tasks. Other items on my list are discussing standardization, JCP, JSPA, Apache RI/TCK licensing issues and looking at US encryption export regulations to see what is required to better mix and match the standard crypto (hook) APIs from GNU Crypto/Jessie with GNU Classpath. As you can see very little coding, reviewing or even testing of code :( My new year resolution will be: Less talking, More coding! Let me know if you can help with any of the above things. Cheers, Mark
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