Re: rmi vs cajo

2005-09-15 Thread Andrew Haley
Stuart Ballard writes: > I've seen various blog posts and things that give the general advice > that calling a virtual method from a constructor is pretty much always > a bad idea. "Considered harmful", that kind of thing. > > That's difficult advice to follow in Java since almost everything'

Re: 0.16 Screenshots

2005-09-15 Thread theUser BL
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 10:49 +, theUser BL wrote: > There are Screenhsots of 0.16 at > http://rapidshare.de/files/4979682/cp15shots.zip.html Thanks for all those screenshots! and they are now at OSDir: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=435&slide=1&title=classpath+0.16+

Re: JamVM 1.3.3 released

2005-09-15 Thread theUser BL
I have tested it - to compile - and become errors. At first I tried this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/z/jamvm-1.3.3> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/jamvm checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whet

GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread theUser BL
Hi! What me everytime wonder is, that GNU Classpath have not its own VM. To show the situation so, like I see it: Suns Java comes as a complete package, which includes the Classes _and_ the JVM. Mono comes as a complete package, which includes the .net-classes and the mono-runtime. Only with

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Andrew Haley
theUser BL writes: > > What me everytime wonder is, that GNU Classpath have not its own VM. > > To show the situation so, like I see it: > Suns Java comes as a complete package, which includes the Classes _and_ the > JVM. > Mono comes as a complete package, which includes the .net-classes

Re: JamVM 1.3.3 released

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi, The problem is you're trying to build on AMD64. This is the only platform which needs libffi. On my AMD64 system I've installed libffi from the distribution, and configure has no problems in finding this. >From your message you've compiled libffi yourself. I guess it's in a "non-standard"

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi, > >From the new versions, which use 0.17 or 0.18, I can either not compile it > or it (like JamVM), or it have problems with AWT and Swing (IKVM). > And a CVS-version of Kaffe I have not tried. But Kaffe 1.1.5 don't run Swing > programs on my computer. > JamVM _does_ work with Classpath-0.18

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. theUser BL wrote: > Hi! > > What me everytime wonder is, that GNU Classpath have not its own VM. Theoretically every Java replacement package should develop a VM, tools and a class library. However it quickly turned out that there is a lot of stuff which can be shared between the projects. On

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Dalibor Topic
theUser BL wrote: Hi! What me everytime wonder is, that GNU Classpath have not its own VM. The FSF has gcj, actually. It is the 'GNU' runtime. To show the situation so, like I see it: Suns Java comes as a complete package, which includes the Classes _and_ the JVM. Mono comes as a complete p

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Dalibor Topic
Robert Schuster wrote: And a CVS-version of Kaffe I have not tried. But Kaffe 1.1.5 don't run Swing programs on my computer. For a long long time Kaffe developed its own class library. These days Dalibor is applying Classpath' patch flood into Kaffe's library to keep the projects in sync. How

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Stuart Ballard
On 9/15/05, Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Missing bits and pieces: > String (yay, same as gcj. May be really hard. ;) > java.lang.reflection (hard in a way, easy in a way. Hard since GNU > Classpath has almost no code for it, so it'll be easy to merge in > Kaffe's implementation. Volun

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Meskauskas Audrius
GNU Classpath is a library. Depending on the needs of you project, significant part of it can be used as an alternative library for an arbitrary jre's. Many newer packages provide standard mechanism to plug-in the alternative implementation just by setting several system poperties to the altern

Re: JamVM 1.3.3 released

2005-09-15 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Robert" == Robert Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Anybody know how to get configure to find it? If not, I'll Robert> look at it tonight. libffi isn't really separately released or installed. Most packages just ship their own copy. There was talk a while back about doing relea

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Stuart" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stuart> Makes me wonder, since the need to override certain files and/or Stuart> packages in Classpath for a particular VM is such a common scenario, Stuart> whether Classpath's build system shouldn't include native support for Stuart> t

Re: JamVM 1.3.3 released

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi Tom, Ubuntu definately has a libffi-dev package, which I installed (header file). So the lib I guess is part of gcc? Rob. On 15 Sep 2005 09:52:57 -0600, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Robert" == Robert Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert> Anybody know how to get c

Re: JamVM 1.3.3 released

2005-09-15 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Robert" == Robert Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Ubuntu definately has a libffi-dev package, which I installed (header Robert> file). So the lib I guess is part of gcc? Yeah. But in gcc it is built for libgcj as a convenience library. Hmm, I guess it does actually install so

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Dalibor Topic
Tom Tromey wrote: >>"Stuart" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Stuart> Makes me wonder, since the need to override certain files and/or > Stuart> packages in Classpath for a particular VM is such a common scenario, > Stuart> whether Classpath's build system shouldn't include

[Bug classpath/23863] mprec buffer overwrite bug

2005-09-15 Thread cvs-commit at developer dot classpath dot org
--- Additional Comments From cvs-commit at developer dot classpath dot org 2005-09-15 17:14 --- Subject: Bug 23863 CVSROOT:/cvsroot/classpath Module name:classpath Branch: Changes by: Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/09/15 17:10:29 Modified files: .

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Dalibor Topic
Stuart Ballard wrote: > Makes me wonder, since the need to override certain files and/or > packages in Classpath for a particular VM is such a common scenario, > whether Classpath's build system shouldn't include native support for > this. Obviously this doesn't jive with the eventual goal of a sin

Re: GNU Classpath and JVMs

2005-09-15 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 16:51 +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Yes. That's part of the necessity of being a work-in-progress, though: > the VM interface is still in huge flux, and will be until GNU Classpath > is finished. Since GNU Classpath is fortunately not tied to a single > runtime, the VM inte

[Bug swing/23527] JMenu with shortcut/accelerator looks bad

2005-09-15 Thread pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
-- What|Removed |Added Target Milestone|--- |0.19 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23527 ___ Bug-c

[Bug swing/16540] GlassPane intercepting of MouseEvents flaky.

2005-09-15 Thread pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
-- What|Removed |Added Target Milestone|--- |0.19 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16540 ___ Bug-c

[Bug swing/22966] swing: JTextArea.setText("") causes StringIndexOutOfBoundsException later

2005-09-15 Thread pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
-- What|Removed |Added Target Milestone|--- |0.19 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22966 ___ Bug-c

[Bug swing/23036] Swing: JFileChooser look-in-box problem

2005-09-15 Thread pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org
-- What|Removed |Added Target Milestone|--- |0.19 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23036 ___ Bug-c