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| author | Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org> | 2006-10-05 02:44:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org> | 2006-10-05 02:44:18 +0000 |
| commit | 2799793789d5b66c90efbd1a3eb56e0c1ec57f88 (patch) | |
| tree | 9157197f502b6830af9cafe029fd3d47628a7ed6 /NEWS | |
| parent | 7516107c5abe26f7a4378017344eb9e449ebc28e (diff) | |
| download | classpath-2799793789d5b66c90efbd1a3eb56e0c1ec57f88.tar.gz | |
2006-10-05 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>
* Merge of HEAD-->generics for 2006/09/03-2006/10/04.
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@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ New in release 0.93 (UNRELEASED) +* CORBA objects that exist on the same virtual machine and only are connected + to another ORB are now accessed directly and no longer via network. It is + the same feature that RMI implementation provides. These faster calls should + be completely transparent, as the parameters are cloned, where required. + Currently the direct calls are only possible for the non-deprecated objects + that are connected to the ORB via POA. * The 'javah' tool has been added. It requires the ASM library (see asm.objectweb.org); it can be enabled with the --with-asm option to configure @@ -10,6 +16,31 @@ New in release 0.93 (UNRELEASED) * Added firstNonNullClassLoader method to vm/reference/gnu/classpath/VMStackWalker.java. VMs are encouraged to provide a more efficient implementation. +* Added aton method to vm/reference/java/net/VMInetAddress.java. +* NetworkInterface has been implemented for systems that provide the + `getifaddrs' function. +* java.nio.channels.Selector implementations have been added that use + the kqueue notification mechanism on Mac OS X and *BSD, and that use + the epoll notification mechanism on Linux 2.6. +* java.nio has been refactored to support more non-blocking operations + natively. Blocking IO classes have been refactored to call + non-blocking classes. Non-blocking accepts, connects, and + scatter-gather IO should now be better supported. + +Runtime interface changes: + +* java.net.VMNetworkInterface and java.net.NetworkInterface have been + updated to keep native-modified state in the former, and to simplify + the native code in our reference implementation. +* gnu.java.nio.VMChannel has been expanded to better support native + non-blocking IO. Most native state data (such as file descriptor + integers) has been abstracted away into private state in the runtime + interface. +* gnu.java.nio.VMPipe has been similarly changed. +* gnu.java.net.VMPlainSocketImpl has been changed to remove some + functionality now provided by VMChannel; datagram socket-specific + methods have also been moved here, deprecating + VMPlainDatagramSocketImpl. New in release 0.92 (Aug 9, 2006) |