Re: JDK 1.5 support?

2004-06-30 Thread Robert Schuster
is definetely not a technical one. there was a talk with developers in the Java forums about that. the latest answer is retroweaver. it 'reweaves' 1.5-compatible classfiles and makes them runnable on 1.4 runtimes. its license is modified BSD. you can find it here: retroweaver.sf.net cu

Re: JDK 1.5 support?

2004-07-01 Thread Robert Schuster
ted (like expensive checks). Thats fine. If your application does something unexpected you can run it again with -ea (enable assertions) and with a little luck you can see that something uses a method without providing the method's preconditions. cu Robert Schuster ___ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

classpath API version

2004-07-08 Thread Robert Schuster
needs a different syntax and therefore tools ... cu Robert Schuster ___ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: automated mauve reports

2004-07-19 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi list, tell me if I am wrong but in gnu.testlet.java.lang.Byte lines like this occur: PASS: gnu.testlet.java.lang.Byte.ByteTest: Error : test_decode failed - 2 (number 1) Isn't that (and many others) a failed test? cu Robert C. Brian Jones wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 12:32, Roman Kenn

implementing java.beans.XMLDecoder

2004-09-24 Thread Robert Schuster
utions for GNU classpath to the Free Software Foundation. My passport says I am "Robert Schuster" :-) cu Robert Now give me some time ;-) ___ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

finding method efficiently

2004-09-27 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi Classpath hackers, I am currently implementing java.beans.XMLDecoder which now starts to work. But I have a small (efficiency) problem. As you might know the decoder accepts XML data like this: 12 43 and executes this using reflection as if I had written: new Point(12, 43). Now somethi

Re: finding method efficiently

2004-09-28 Thread Robert Schuster
Thanks for all the replies. I have rewritten the code that searches the methods using isAssignableFrom() (and feeling much better about it now). Archie Cobbs wrote: For an almost-example, look at Classpath's java.lang.Class.internalGetMethod(). Unfortunately it works exactly like Class.getMeth

Re: More astonishing progress in japi scores

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Schuster
Stuart> - Imageio Michael Koch has the library parts of this, just not checked in yet. My understanding is that he doesn't have any providers. javax.imageio support would be great. I searched for Java libraries with friendly licenses and this one seemed to be very interesting: JIU - The Java

java.beans XML examples

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi there. I am making good progress with the implementation of the XMLDecoder. Unfortunately first tests with some XML files I grabbed from online tutorials showed me that I have misunderstood the specification on certain parts. Now I am asking you for XML files made by XMLEncoder for testing

clickthrough license

2004-10-02 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. I found the official specification papers for the java.bean.XMLDecoder which is part of JSR-57 andwant to download them but they are wrapped in a license agreement. It does not look dangerous to me but I am cautious and wait until someone from this list says it is OK to accept it. Here is t

bug 10491 was Re: More astonishing progress in japi scores

2004-10-06 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi I've done the same comparison 6 weeks ago with Tom Tromey, and we were at 75% back then. 5 % in 6 weeks. 20 % to go. You do the math. :) I am excited too but on the other hand I worry about a lot bugs popping up ... Has anyone seen that one: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&it

Re: bug 10491 was Re: More astonishing progress in japi scores

2004-10-07 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi the mailer is funny. I got Sven's response to Andrew's mail but not Andrew's. Sven de Marothy wrote: Andrew Haley writes: Has anyone seen that one: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=10491 I recently discovered it while writing some test files for the

updating java.beans class to 1.5

2004-10-26 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi there, in an attempt to fix bug 10799 I saw that the affected class (java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport) needs some general cleanup and fixing (it was last modified in 1998!). I took the online version of the 1.5 API documentation and realized that the 2 constructors are now public (were prote

Re: gij as JRE 5

2004-11-15 Thread Robert Schuster
There is actually a good reason. If the 1.5 classes are missing, the chances that a 1.5 compiled class will run are slim. This is what Andrew John Hughes was trying to address with his proposal to implement the 1.5 classes as much as possible (using 1.4 sources). I haven't thought about it deeply,

Re: gij as JRE 5

2004-11-15 Thread Robert Schuster
Andrew Haley wrote: Robert Schuster writes: > > >There is actually a good reason. If the 1.5 classes are missing, the > >chances that a 1.5 compiled class will run are slim. This is what Andrew > >John Hughes was trying to address with his proposal to implement the 1.5

Re: Visual mauve test?

2004-12-15 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi No, we can't do this yet, but it's something we should work on. We need to put a gui testing framework in mauve first. We'll need to use Xvfb so that nothing is actually displayed on the tester's desktop. And we'll likely want a java.awt.Robot implementation too so that we can script gui test

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: java.beans.Beans - fixes for 1.4 compatibility

2004-12-18 Thread Robert Schuster
Ahem. Here is the ChangeLog entry for the patch: 2004-12-19 Robert Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * gnu/java/beans/DummyAppletStub.java: dummy implementation of AppletStub for java.beans.Beans.instantiate * gnu/java/beans/DummyAppletContext.java: dummy implementation

Mediation

2004-12-27 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi fellow GNU Classpath developers, for some time now I am participating in this project fixing bugs and adding functionality mainly to the java.beans package. Despite my good knowledge of the Java language, participation in development communities and especially the GNU community, is virgin so

Re: Mediation

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Schuster
Thanks for the replies. Andrew John Hughes wrote: Hi Robert, I like this idea of a mediator/librarian role. Having a physical human contact for new developers would certainly decrease the learning curve, and help integrate the newcomer into the project. Also, as you say, there are a lot of thing

Re: Remediation

2005-01-04 Thread Robert Schuster
Hello James. As a tainted developer who wants to help Classpath, I'd love to get a definitive answer on what how can and can not contribute. The last I heard, the GNU Licensing team was looking at whether I can contribute tests to Mauve. If I'm allowed to work on Javadoc documentation, I'd work o

What are tainted developers allowed to work on?

2005-01-05 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. James Damour telled us some months ago that he had studied certain sources of the Sun JDK and is therefore considered a tainted developer which cannot contribute code to GNU Classpath. Nevertheless he is eager to help making Free Java a reality. The problem is that we do not have a definite ans

VM support for GetDirectBufferAddress

2005-01-06 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. This is for all VM implementors. Which Free Java VMs support the GetDirectBufferAddress() in a way that it returns a real buffer address instead of NULL? If your VM does not support it: Can you tell me about the reasons and the priority of implementing it? If it does: Can you tell me since w

since, status and specnote tags

2005-01-11 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, what is our policy regarding the since, status and specnote tags? I have seen @status entries being replaced by @specnote and thought they should not be used any more but then I found them again in newer classes. That leads my to following questions: What should @specnote or @status describ

Re: since, status and specnote tags

2005-01-11 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, I found another tag that seems to be outdated: @version Should @version tags removed whenever seen? cu Robert ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: since, status and specnote tags

2005-01-11 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi again. Michael Koch wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2005 00:28 schrieb Robert Schuster: Hi, what is our policy regarding the since, status and specnote tags? I have seen @status entries being replaced by @specnote and thought they should not be used any more but then I found

mediation wiki is ready

2005-01-16 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, the last days I have been entering data for a Wiki on developer.classpath.org/mediation .This place is going to supplement the Hacker's guide, the mailing list and the homepage (FAQ) by providing useful information about developer decisions. Another whole page deals with issues that might b

Re: generics-branch

2005-01-17 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. JAPI tools is also pretty poor at showing up the changes, because, of course, generics don't make it to bytecode. One could inspect genericism using reflection (e.g. Class.getTypeParameters(), Constructor.getGenerictypeParameters()). I would like to help adding generics support to japitools.

Re: [Classpathx-discuss] Re: javax.management

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Schuster
Fernando Nasser wrote: Nic Ferrier wrote: (...) O.S. developers had a preference to contribute under the GPL, I did not think it would go as far as not be willing to contribute at all. It does in my case. I am very selective about who I help. I have often found it to be the case where ASF program

character conversion frameworks

2005-01-29 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, with the recent patches to Classpath's two character conversion frameworks we where reminded that there is still no unified solution. After being introduced by mark to the topic and fxing some minor issues with the NIO charsets I summarized all what I've found interesting here: http://develo

Free Ja*a fans rejoicing

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, OpenGL and SDL coolness is finally available on Free Java runtimes: http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~rschuste/java/classpath/sdljava-jamvm-1.png The interesting bit is that this was made possible by indirect collaboration: - Ivan revived JSDL - Michael fixed bugs in GNU Classpath's directbu

Performance regression tests

2005-02-02 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, I have summarized an issue regarding performance regressions in the mediation wiki: http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathFirstSteps#head-91ea62ff4f08bd9ffd972871819683ecc4fff992 This was requested by Michael after my last patch. As you can see from the references link at the end o

public personal todo lists

2005-02-02 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, yesterday I felt the need for having a todo list that is not tied to my computer at home. I quickly created a page[0] in the mediation wiki and uploaded the things from my head. :) I find this quite useful to have a public page which I can reach from all over the world. It is nice that you can

Re: Modules names and other details for new classpath bug product

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. Stuart Ballard wrote: Is there a plan for getting them to properly merge? IMHO a difference of only 25 files suggests that it should be perfectly possible for gcj to use an out-of-the-box classpath build and merely prepend a custom jar file containing those 25 files to the beginning of its boot

Re: OT: Eclipse Additions

2005-02-21 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, thanks to Tom Tromey's guide on hacking Classpath with eclipse I am using it for quite a while. However there is one thing that bothers me and just today this little incovenience caused a little havoc while applying my latest patch. When hacking on Classpath I usually have more than one pat

List of GNU Classpath compatible programs

2005-03-01 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, Sascha Brawer set up a page that will list programs/libraries that are compatible with GNU Classpath. I started by entering BeanShell which I am often using with JamVM. Please use the given template or modify it if you think it misses something. The page can be found here: http://developer.

Patch submission guide

2005-03-01 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, after reading a discussion on cp-patches I thought it would be a good idea to sum up information on committing patches in the mediation wiki. You can find the summary here: http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathFirstSteps#head-f62484ed22538839628a16c463dc935bb04047dc Feel free t

Re: CORBA

2005-03-01 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi Audrius, because of FOSDEM I missed your mail. Have you seen this: http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathCurrentTopics#head-71a8cfbbf508ee7be34b77691ba23c2b73b327f5 ? It would be fine if you two could join somehow. Btw: It seems to me that you are going to implement a complete Java

Re: JamVM 1.2.5 released

2005-03-02 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi Robert, please update JamVM's homepage. It still shows 1.2.3 as the most recent version. When I suggest people to use JamVM 1.2.4 or higher they may be a little bit confused by this. :-) cu Robert Robert Lougher wrote: Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of JamVM 1.2.5 (http://jamvm.sourc

JDialog weirdness - what to do?

2005-03-03 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi list, I just found out the following & got a headache from it: GNU Classpath's JDialog rejects illegal values given to the method setDefaultCloseOperation() with a IllegalArgumentException. This is good for robustness but it is not what the official implementation does :-( The official JDialo

Re: GdkGraphics extending Graphics2D?

2005-03-04 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, if I only could find where I read that for J2SE (>=1.2?) you always have a Graphics2D instance. I swear I have read it once. The argument for is Sun's (and IBM's) doing unfortunately. Since 1.2(?) JComponent.paint() gets passed a Graphics2D object in the majority of cases[1] and people are wr

apidocs not showing "throws Throwable"

2005-03-08 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, while wading throught our fine apidoc on developer.classpath.org/doc I wondered why "java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler.invoke()" does not show that the method can throw a Throwable. At first I thought it is a bug in our API implementation but a short glimpse at the source code revealed th

Re: UrlConnection and images

2005-03-09 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, Michael Koch said he has a patch for ImageIO that will fix image loading via URL. Currently it fails. cu Robert Fawzib Rojas wrote: It seems that UrlConnection.getContent() for image/gif should return an ImageProducer object. I guess doing something like... package gnu.java.net.content.imag

beanshell from source

2005-03-10 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, there was some interest on building BeanShell from source on IRC. On Gentoo they made a build script (ebuild) that can do this. Maybe this gives you an inspiration for what to do on the commandline: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62664 (the last file entry is the working one). Some

gnu.classpath.boot.library.path support in Runtime.java

2005-03-14 Thread Robert Schuster
Hello, as discussed on IRC GNU Classpath I introduced a system property named gnu.classpath.boot.library.path which contains a path of directories where Classpath's native libraries are located. It is optional for a runtime to support. Actually it depends on the VM's ability to run a non-defaul

Re: Native methods in InetAddress to VMInetAddress

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, thanks for the hint I have mentioned this a decision here[0] and added a note[1] to the JNI issue on FirstSteps page that adding an abstraction for native methods is preferred when adding new code. cu Robert PS: Yeah, more request to add somethin

Re: [cp-patches] FYI: primitive fullscreen mode support

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Roman Kennke wrote: > Hi, > > I'm committing the attached patch that implements a primitive fullscreen > support on a peer independent level. Actually it does only resize and > relocate the fullscreen window. Peers that implement a real > (acceler

Re: Wiki date formats

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've fixed this and changed all date to the ISO date format -MM-DD. Thanks for the request. cu Robert Andrew Overholt wrote: > Hi, > > I was browsing around the wiki today (great work, BTW!) and I noticed that > the date formats were a litt

mediation survey

2005-04-14 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi all, in the last days I have prepared a survey for the mediation effort. It is the final part of my semester thesis and a really important one. Answering the questions will take around 15-45 minutes. I will send the URL for the survey to every developer via the savannah interface. Thanks for y

mediation survey - reminder

2005-04-19 Thread Robert Schuster
you have not gotten mail from me last week then something went wrong with your mail account registered at Savannah. Just write me a mail and I'll send you the URL for the survey. cu Robert Robert Schuster wrote: > Hi all, > in the last days I have prepared a survey for the mediation ef

Problems building classpath with javac

2005-05-02 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Chris Burdess wrote: > If we could have an explanation of why we can't build Classpath using > Sun's javac that would also be helpful. Ok. :) What are the (technical) problems with javac? cu Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Re: New member - questions about a new compiler

2005-05-08 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Thomas, have a look at this page http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/docs/docs.html Especially: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/docs/vmintegration.html Let us know if anything is unclear with it, so we can add missing information. cu Robe

Re: Japize fix

2005-05-18 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Roman, I had a similar question some months ago. It all lead to this[0] issue in the mediation wiki. [0] - http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathFirstSteps#head-9467fcae64fe2b7fa060dd0b5e1378bb6b028a64 cu robert Stuart Ballard wrote:

Re: Classpath regexp code

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks, I put this on my todo list to add it to the "grand TO-DO" list ;) cu Robert Anthony Green wrote: > I recently stumbled across the fact that gnu.regexp doesn't perform > nearly as well as many other regexp implementations in java. > > Here's

Spurious messages from the old locale framework?

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I got these error messages when building classpath from CVS this evening: mkdir -p ../java/util ../scripts/generate-locale-list.sh > ../java/util/LocaleData.java ../scripts/generate-locale-list.sh: line 55: cd: ../scripts/../resource/gnu/java/loca

Odd behavior with --prefix

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, from the debate about java.util.logging.LogManager I stepped upon a small oddity with our configure script: 1) Gentoo configures gnu classpath with ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu - --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/sha

Re: How to handle properties file

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. > I think people are missing Nicolas' point here. The class LogManager > is broken, because it is looking in the wrong place for the properties > file. > > Does anyone know what the correct behavior is supposed to be? A certain Jay-too-es-ee impl

error building classpath with gcj 3.3.5

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am trying to build Classpath with GCJ 3.3.5 (actually gcj (GCC) 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1) from the Gentoo distribution on x86) and it shows the following error: /usr/bin/gcj --bootclasspat

drop

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Andrew Haley wrote: > Michael Koch writes: > > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:00:53AM +0200, Robert Schuster wrote: > > > > > > As these errors do not happen with GCJ 4.0 I suppose the problem comes > > > fr

Re: Using classpath in J2ME apps: changes and licensing

2005-05-23 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. > PS I think it may become a standard practice - using pieces of > gnu.classpath for adding features to 'poor' J2ME implementations. So > the licensing issues around it should be put in FAQ/Wiki, probably. Thanks for the hint. I track what people

Re: error building classpath with gcj 3.3.5

2005-05-24 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H. Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 21:59 +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > >>On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:41:45PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:27 +0200, Michael Koch wrote: >>> >Lets drop support for g

XML strictness

2005-05-30 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I got a bug report about our DOM parser which I thought to be valid but then found something that irritates me. The following program (probably) demonstrates a problem with Classpath' DOM parser. package xmlfilter; !various imports ommitted! pu

GtkImage fixes

2005-06-03 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. Thanks to the recent fixes to GtkImage MegaMek[0], which formerly looked like this[1], is now displaying the map and other graphics mostly correct[2]. (The mech display was completely broken in 0.15, too) I am not sure what is causing the prob

Corba & Licensing questions

2005-06-04 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I got the following diff in the mediation wiki: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Wiki user, > > You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "GNU Classpath > Mediation Wiki" for change notification. > > The following page has been chan

Re: Does J2SDK 5.0 BCL preclude contributions to Classpath?

2005-06-04 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Matt, have you seen this: http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathFirstSteps#head-9d8423acc71a1bd7817642969981efd5331078d0 Is that answering your question? cu Robert Matt Van Gundy wrote: > Classpath developers, > > In an attempt to up

pro-linux article 1 - now in english

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I invested some time to translate my article which was published by german free software centric newssite pro-linux.de to english. You can find the document in OO.o format here[0]. What I am interested in is that someone who is a bit more skil

Re: pro-linux article 1 - now in english

2005-06-13 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wow, thanks! I like it. cu Robert Chris Burdess wrote: > Robert Schuster wrote: > >>I invested some time to translate my article which was published by >>german free software centric newssite pro-linux.de to english. You can >

Re: LinuxTag - 2 GNU Classpath/gcj presentations on Saturday 25 June

2005-06-22 Thread Robert Schuster
entation. It's right I am now* a fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe :) cu Robert *registration pending > > On Saturday 25 June there will be 2 presentations on GNU Classpath/GCJ: > http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/fvp-sa.html > > Robert Sch

Re: [cp-patches] Patch: formatting of copyrights

2005-07-12 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the patch is missing. Not that I want to peer review it, but IMHO kaffe & gcj need it. cu Robert Lillian Angel wrote: > 2005-07-12 Lillian Angel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * javax/swing/JTree.java: > Formatting copyright > * ja

Re: 0.17 release Friday (SLOW DOWN!)

2005-07-13 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, thats funny. A maintainer who tries to slow down the development pace ... :) My plans untils friday: - - fix the remaing actionCommand things - - implement the 4 missing methods in JTree (if no one is faster than me) cu Robert > So please no mor

Re: Suggesting public GNU Classpath namespace

2005-07-15 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, correct me if I am wrong but I think 'our' public namespace would be: org.gnu.classpath cu Robert Meskauskas Audrius wrote: >> The problem is that Rights, as well as ACL and Quota, are in a com.sun > package. > > There is an idea to suggest the

Re: Suggesting public GNU Classpath namespace

2005-07-15 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. > > I think the GNU people don't like the 'org' prefix: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/java/packages.html#why-just-gnu Btw: That place lists a wrong package name for the Gtk+ and Gnome bindings[0]. I was under the impression that we do it like

Re: java.beans.XMLEncoder missing from classpath?

2005-08-25 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi Sandor, XMLEncoder and friends (Encoder, PersistenceDelegate, DefaultPersistenceDelegate) are on my todo list. However I am still suffering from 'offlinitis'[0]. :) cu Robert [0] - http://www.fsfe.org/Members/robertschuster/weblog.2005-06-30.7116721220/ -- Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu ver

Re: Patches to java.util.zip by Christian Schlichtherle

2005-08-31 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > http://www.javaworld.com/jw-10-1997/jw-10-sunsuit.html Interesting article, especially this one: "And while Sun can exercise its legal rights over the use of the Java name, it can do little to stop Microsoft from implementing a "clean room" version

JAWT odds

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have some questions about the JAWT interface in Classpath. 1) To compile the JAWT demo I had to copy the source files into the object folder and run make with: make -f Makefile.jawt (from ${obj_dir}/examples) It would be nice if the makefile w

JamVM and Eclipse

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, as you can see in the Eclipse section of our showcase page[0] running the IDE with JamVM still needs a small kludge: PATH=.:${PATH} ./eclipse -consoleLog -debug -vm jamvm -vmargs -mx256m I wonder why the PATH thing is necessary and whether this i

Re: JAWT odds

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, > Yes, I'm currently sorting this out for libgcj and java-gcj-compat. Sun > puts libjawt.so in $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386. To ensure that libjawt.so > is found automatically, Sun's java executable prepends > $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH then re-exec's itself within > the new envir

Re: GNU Classpath 0.18 released

2005-09-07 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi to all the adventurous! > * QT4 AWT peers, enable by giving configure --enable-qt-peer. Setting this up is still not that easy because most OS do not ship Qt4 at the moment. However you find a tested and tried walkthrough to get the Qt4 peers working on the showcase page of our Wiki[0]. Please

Re: GNU Classpath 0.18 released

2005-09-07 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, the JAPI Tools provide an analysis of what you request. The results are published here: Classpath vs. JDK 1.3 http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-jdk13-classpath.html Classpath vs. JDK 1.4 http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-jdk14-classpath.html Classpath vs. JDK 1.5 http://w

assert usage

2005-09-08 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, Roman started using the assert statement. Do we finally support this officially? Can we work out some recommendation when to use assert ( expr ); OR assert ( expr ) : "what to say here?"; OR if ( precondition ) throw new WhatException() to have consistent code? cu Robert __

ImageIO reader based on ImageMagick

2005-09-08 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi folks, for some time now I want to see an ImageIO reader in Classpath which uses ImageMagick. However because of lack of time I could not finish it. Now I tarred the sources together in the hope that somebody else who is more experienced with ImageIO can finish it. The program in the attachmen

Re: ImageIO reader based on ImageMagick

2005-09-09 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > The license in the tarball is GPL. Is it OK if we incorporate this code > into GNU Classpath, changing the license to GPL+exception? Of course it is ok. :) Btw: The COPYING file is from classpath' root directory ... cu Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: How does GNU classpath implement char?

2005-09-13 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. > AIUI, 1.5 has a lot of library updates to allow for 'int' codepoints > that lie outside the 16 bit range of a java 'char'. For the most part > we have not implemented these APIs yet. They don't look intrinsically > hard, just voluminous... Sven has implemented a lot of 1.5 functionality in

Re: How does GNU classpath implement char?

2005-09-13 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, again. I obviously overlooked something in the JAPI comparison. There are indeed missing all the methods that deal with and 'int' as a character. cu Robert ___ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

Re: [Bug swing/23850] New: ProgressMonitor unimplemented

2005-09-13 Thread Robert Schuster
I just want to announce that I want to implement this (But my bugzilla account is not properly set up yet.) cu Robert roman at kennke dot org wrote: > The class javax.swing.ProgressMonitor and related classes are complete stubs > and > should be properly implemented. > ___

Re: [cp-patches] Patch: convert new Boolean(X) to Boolean.valueOf(X)

2005-09-14 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, looks good although I can only speak for > gnu/java/beans/decoder/BooleanHandler.java: Use > Boolean.valueOf() instead of new Boolean. this code. cu Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Benchmark / Performance Test in mauve

2005-09-14 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, this topic may belong to mauve but I am not sure whether all the VM implementors are on that list. Recently there was a discussion[0] on the sdljava list about the efficieny of direct NIO buffers and Java arrays. It took place because OpenGL functions like glVertex3fv(float[]) in C where mappe

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

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, to compile cacao successfully with --with-external-classpath you need the latest CVS version of both codebases. cu Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.or

[Fwd: [Jamvm-general] Problem with sockets on JamVM version 1.3.3 and Classpath 0.18]

2005-09-18 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, I forward this to the GNU Classpath discussion mailing because I think this can be better solved there. cu Robert --- Begin Message --- Hi JamVM users, I am testing a lightweight servlet engine called Winstone (winstone.sourceforge.net), which works fine with Sun and IBM JVMs (1.4.2), but when

Re: Has someone experimented with jedit?

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. > Pointers to other Free-and-not-overly-complex Swing applications are > welcome too. I'm happy to try running a few things and fixing some bugs > (at least the easy ones). I liked that idea so much that I created a special page[0] in the wiki[1] for it. To not lose track of the page I linked

Classpath Meeting Minutes (2005-10-07)

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Schuster
--- GNU Classpath Meeting Minutes from 2005-10-07 17:00 UTC --- "No fireworks. Just smiling happy hackers wondering when they could get back to business and add some new code..." -- Mark Wiel

Re: 0.19 "release meeting" - Wed Oct 19 21:00 UTC

2005-10-18 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi, unfortunately I cannot attend the meeting because I am at our local public WLAN meeting at this time. If no one wants to make a summary send me the IRC log and I will make one. cu Robert Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi all, > > We wanted to have a release the first week of November. So I thought

Re: New GNU Classpath developers Nicolas and Christian

2005-10-20 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi all, at this point I'd like to advertise the ClasspathFirstSteps page[0] in our Wiki. It should answer all the development-related questions about doing Classpath contributions (eg. patch submission). > Nicolas Geoffray has been helping us out with RMI, Serialization and > Classloader issues.

BshBot

2005-10-28 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, everyone knows that I am a big fan of beanshell. After seeing the jnode bot with it's ability to run ant targets I got to idea that having a bot that can execute arbitrary java commands would be ultimately cool. Here is the code if you want to pla

Re: BshBot

2005-10-28 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, to compile the bot you need pircbot[0] and beanshell[1] One area where such a bot would be useful is for online display of implementation bugs in our API. cu Robert [0] - http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php [1] - http://www.beanshell.org/download.

Re: Using OSG for Classpath

2005-10-31 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Peter, I think the OSGi-ification would be nice for classpath. I have seen that for OpenWRT the SableVM hacker provide a feature stripped subset of GNU Classpath. If the addition of OSGi could automate this or make such an effort considerably easier

Re: Mauve results

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. > Done. Is there a way to get to the FreeSwingTestApps page from the > front page of the wiki? I couldn't find a path, but maybe I just wasn't > looking in the right place... Done. It is still part of the current topics[0] page but since it seem

Re: Asking our experts on Swing.

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Audrius, I am not a swing expert but I suggest you to add a beanshell console to your game. That way you can inspect the variables (even private stuff) at runtime. That could help to describe an erroneous state more easily. Btw: One can live debug

Re: Comment to 0.19

2005-11-05 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > What me a little bit surprised is, that GNU Classpath becomes the same > bugs as Suns Java. This obviously means Lillian, Roman and Anthony are on the right track!!! :) Seriously, I think the bugs you mention are a consequence of the way Swing

Re: [cp-patches] Patch: JSplitPane patch fixes PR 24904

2005-11-16 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Anthony Balkissoon wrote: > Only the no-argument constructor is a "demo" constructor (this seems > like a ridiculous idea in the first place, who would want this?) so it > creates a JButton as the left component and a JButton as the right > compon

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